userstyles.org - Better Hacker News Design

A visual redesign of hacker news, trying to keep recognizable elements like the orange title bar, but improving some things of the orginal design which annoyed me.
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Better Hacker News Design
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Author onli
License CC0
Created Aug 19, 2012
Updated May 26, 2013
Installs (this week) 4
Installs (total) 142
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Notes

0.3:
Up/Downvote-arrows get blue on hover, which helps to click the right one when having both available

0.2.2:
Fixed: Links at bottom were invisible

0.2.1:
Fixed: Downvoted comments get gray again

0.2:
  • Highlighting of current top-navigation-link
  • Additional space between footer and site, important for threads without comments
0.1:
  • Bigger fonts (respecting browser-settings)
  • Higher contrast (almost black on white)
  • Colourful link, to better discover them and displaying the visited-state
  • Various visual improvements like increased line-height, vote-button aligned to position-number, more margins
  • Same style applied to the search
Based upon Hacker News Redesign and Colours names on YCombinator/HackerNews.

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