Show HN: The Top Fives – now with Dark Mode

[michaelmior]

I like the dark mode, but for me the contrast between the text and background is far too low. Coupled with the relatively small font size, this really compromises legibility.

[finishingmove]

I second this. The light mode could also use a minor improvement in contrast. Otherwise awesome idea!

[smoyer]

Section 508 sets the (US) government's standards for accessibility on web sites as well as applications. Contrast is specifically called out in two sections of the quick start guide:

1. 1194.21 (g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast and color selections and other individual display attributes.

2. 1194.21 (j) When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a variety of color selections capable of producing a range of contrast levels shall be provided.

See: http://www.section508.gov/content/learn/standards/quick-refe...

[sonaal]

Noted. Will look into - thanks for the feedback

[pazra]

Third-ed. Contrast way too low. Why not use #000000 for the background color? Everything just looks washed out as it stands and almost has the effect of making everything look disabled.

How about something closer to this? http://i.imgur.com/qQr0xId.png

[viach]

http://popurls.com/ ?

[acafourek]

See also: http://alltop.com since ~2008(ish)

[PokeTheCiTy]

A french one too: http://multiboards.net/

[jamiesonbecker]

also http://hackurls.com

[XzetaU8]

http://skimfeed.com/ !

[msravi]

Can you make this so it can take any RSS feed/twitter feed and show the top N in each tile?

[sonaal]

ok will add that to the todo list :)

[iDemonix]

The checkboxes for me (latest version of Chrome on Mac) are a bit dodgy and sometimes won't check/uncheck. Also, there's nothing more infuriating than getting the checkboxes how I want them, pressing submit and then it wiping out my changes and shaking an error message at me.

It took me a while to realise I had to select 6 starred sources, why do you wipe out my choices just to tell me I forgot to pick 6? Very annoying. If you refresh the page too it throws a server error.

Good product, definitely needs polish.

[sonaal]

You are right, should not wipe out the selection - but still emphasise that max 6 can be favourited so that they can come above the fold/scroll. Will look into it. Thanks for the feedback.

[pr0vitamin]

Great idea! I can see myself using this. One note: The Chrome extension would be much more useful if it was configurable to allow more use-cases. I installed the Chrome extension, and it appears to replace the "new tab" page, with no alternatives. Having it appear every single time I open a new tab would be productivity crushing, so I removed it again.

[sonaal]

Thanks for the feedback. On the productivity part We are looking into 'task mode' with a simple todo-list. More on that soon :)

[JasonSage]

This looks pretty good, thanks for sharing!

The three-column desktop views cut off way too many titles, meaning if I want the full headline I have to hover over each one for a second or two. At first I didn't even notice, but if you have to do it for every other link it gets tiring.

If it had an option for non-columnar view, I might very well use this every day (and still might on mobile).

[sonaal]

Thanks for the feedback Jason. Will look into view modes.

[davorb]

Yeah, way too low contrast. I use redshift at night, and this isn't readable for me.

[sonaal]

Possible to add a screenshot of how it looks with redshift? Working on the contrast part.

[soared]

This is cool. I think the benefit of condensing these sources into 1 is either that you have to check them less often, or you only get the best posts. If its the second, a top 5 of the day would be more useful. If its the first, its perfect!

[sonaal]

Thanks for the feedback :) It's the first one - condensing the best news for that hour, from sources which have a lot of posts

[ikeboy]

If the first, feedly or any RSS reader works and supports more sites.

[USAnum1]

Very cool site!

Some quick feedback: changing pages (eg: navigating from 'new' to 'inspiration', 'sources', etc...) while in night mode switches the user back to day mode, which can be quite jarring.

[sonaal]

If you go to 'Manage sources' and set the default theme to dark - it will work for both 'News' and 'Inspiration'. But yeah dark mode everywhere (even in manage sources) is something we need to work on.

[tutuca]

A little bit more contrast between background and text and it's perfect.

[sonaal]

on it :) thanks for the feedback

[sonaal]

- select multiple sources (set 6 as favorite) - view inspirations (more to be added soon) - Left / rights arrows - toggle between news and inspirations - toggle between light & dark mode :)

[Torn]

Can you please remember the 'dark mode' setting?

A cookie or localStorage flag would be really easy to do.

[cvarjas]

Any chance of changing links to not open new tabs? This makes use of the site difficult on mobile by constantly needing to close windows.

[sonaal]

Aah got it. Will look into it. Also if you are on iOS check out the native app?

[teeboy]

What is the web stack behind it? It's really nice.

[teeboy]

Are you using J2EE?

[the_cat_kittles]

it would be cool to figure out the karma exchange rate between sites and make one single list, easier said than done of course

[sonaal]

:)

[fogleman]

Great start. Need more sources to choose from.

[sonaal]

Glad to hear :) We will be adding more sources soon. Any sources that you would recommend?