[em-bee]

yes, and i find it disturbing. either a feature is there, then it should be visible at all times, or it should be off completely. while i am reading my eyes are tracking the locations of those buttons/links so that i can quickly move the mouse to use them. if they are hidden that slows me down and gets in the way. it makes sense on small screen like mobile where it is better to use the space to show more content and have actions hidden behind a menu, but not on the desktop.

[D_Joni]

https://hackrnews-dj.netlify.app Have you tried to use this HN clone? It is a SPA, but it has very similar UI to the original site, and it has some extra features added (dark an modern UI, bookmarking with highliting new comments, searching through comments, navigating, root comment collapsing in any child comment, and a few other). It is also optimized for desktop and mobile reading, and very readable.