Comment by pramodbiligiri | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pramodbiligiri | Hacker News Reader

This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments.

- Why is the Comments count shown only for the highlighted story?

- On Firefox Windows, pressing the Enter key on an item triggers a popup warning at the top of the page. Took me a few tries to notice what was going on.

- Alt + H triggers the Firefox Help menu for me :| Can you change that shortcut key to "?" instead? GMail, Github etc use "?".

- The green background for the comment text is a bit too dark.

- Is it just me or is the comment text not showing paragraph breaks?

- The zoom in transition when the comment text modal shows up just slows things down. If I'm going to load many comments in that view I'd rather it load instantly. Also, what's the purpose of this modal? There's a "Space -> Read" for the comment that I'm already reading. I don't get it.

1. I initially wanted to display as little information as possbile to keep it clean and prevent clutter, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to show at least the comments count.

2. Oh, I didn't notice that. Might be caused by the way the new tab is opened. Gonna look into that, thanks.

3. Good catch, gonna change that.

4. Do mean contrast wise?

5. You're right, the spacing between paragraphs is missing. That will get fixed.

6. Yea, I will probably increase the speed of the transition to match the rest of the UI. The modal exists for reading longer comments. It's unnecessary for most, but during testing I found quite a lot of very long comments (especially in Ask HN) that didn't fit on the screen. Scrolling directly inside the comment felt weird, so I added the modal. It also increases the text size and makes it easier to read long paragraphs.

Thank you very much for your feedback!

You’re welcome!

Regarding 4, yep the contrast is less. Hard to make black text stand out against shades of green. An even lighter shade might work.

`wsad` and `hkjl` navigation doesn't seem to work in the modal popout which kind of defeats its purpose.

Re: Alt+H ; it's the same for Alt+O on Firefox.

Thank you! Gonna fix that later.

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