[shric]

There is either an unvote or undown option once you’ve hit one

[oneeyedpigeon]

Ah, thanks. That confirms I upvoted, but I think "vote" is a silly verb to use to convey the opposite of "down"!

[shric]

I agree, but I struggle to think of a cleaner way without sacrificing the minimalist and mostly accessible theme.

I love that there are no images, not even Unicode emojis, no ads, no side bars, etc.

[oneeyedpigeon]

"unup"? I know that sounds a bit weird, but I think the unambiguity still makes it better. "Unupvote" might be an alternative, if that's 'less weird'.

There are alternatives to a simple word change. For example, instead of hiding both arrows, it could just keep the one you pressed, but in grey.

[rimbo789]

I’d say 60% of the time I go to vote I click a users name instead when I’m on mobile.

[da_chicken]

That's still a bad UI.

But at this point I think the bad UX on Hacker News has to be an intentional joke.

[HK-NC]

Theres onoy an Up button for me. I had no idea you could Down anyone here.

[IAmBroom]

You need a certain amount of upvote points to be able to downvote. New users don't have that option.

[kibwen]

Nowadays there is. For the first ten years or so, you just had to shrug and apologize to the commenter for accidentally and irrevocably downvoting them.