[ajmurmann]

My main issue with HN is that the comments link is a pain on touch devices. This redesign seems to make that link even smaller. Much of the value of HN lies in the amazing comments, so I would prefer that link to get almost equal prominence to the actual article. I also don't understand how almost unreadably pale article titles make the page more usable.

To me this redesign is another case of making it prettier rather than more usable.

[jacquesm]

You could probably cook up a userscript that swaps the comments url and the article url, and changes the 'comments' link text to 'article'. (This also takes care of the opening sentence of many comments ('did you read the article?').

[amelius]

My main issue is that moderation and filtering of comments based on score could be much improved, or so it seems. Sometimes I just want to read the best rated comments of a story.