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I love the idea, unfortunate the way this site is presented is such a incredibly busy and noisy way, it makes it so uncomfortable to look at I couldn't use this.

I think hacker news aced it with the clean look, although sometimes I wish for a dark theme.

[iib]

As a sibling commenter said, I think the background texture is the most distracting.

Other than that, I also think the tag density is higher than on Lobsters, where they seem to be using mostly one, or at most two, tags, whereas this website's front-page is using around three for each post.

Maybe the color scheme as well. And perhaps more negative space can be removed by making the column wider, like it is on HN.

[ryandrake]

They've also gone with the sadly-ubiquitous "tiny fixed width column of content with heaps of whitespace on either side" pattern. Real HN does have whitespace borders after a certain width, but it mostly allows the content to scale to fit your browser window. Nothing worse than having a nice gigantic monitor and then having web content constrained to a 5" vertical strip down the middle of it.

[post-it]

For me, it's the fact that the tags overflow to the next line on mobile. Some posts only have tags on the right, some only have tags on the next line, some have both.

The inconsistency makes it impossible for my eyes to settle into a reading pattern.

[esalman]

As a gamer though I immediately noticed how easy it was to visually filter the content by tags and drill down into the details at will. It's an uncommon texture but it works for me.

[abcd_f]

It would certainly help being able hide tags easily, as a guest. They add way too much visual noise without adding much in terms of the ux.

The choice of colors is also rather unconventional and not exactly appealing.

[cloogshicer]

Yup, I think the background texture needs to go away and the font color of the posts needs to change.

[Anon4Now]

> hacker news aced it with the clean look

It's the old school magic of nested <table>'s.

[duxup]

Tables are great provided you’re never going to do much styling with them … and maybe that’s what makes them great.

[timeon]

You can do this with divs/lists and bit of css as well.

[imzadi]

I immediately backed out, because it literally gave me a headache within about 5 seconds.

[shortrounddev2]

Personally I love it. I'm tired of websites with no character to them

[saurik]

I just use browser extensions to get a dark theme.

[amorphousmd]

Example: https://darkreader.org/

[frogulis]

A few colour changes and it would look fine. I don't know if it's the same software as lobste.rs, but it looks almost identical apart from the colours.