> More importantly, it was missing some features I considered essential for a truly viable alternative.
As others here noted, I can't find any noteworthy addition (actually none? maybe I'm not very observant) to the features the actual HN has. I'd appreciate a more thorough explanation of this.
A UI refresh is certainly not a bad idea (although the existing content density is hard to match), but this "modern" UI looks like the average Bootstrap website from 10 years ago with a few extra shadows and transparency. I enabled Javascript to test the theme switching and discovered that scrolling becomes very laggy (on a phone). Perhaps you're accidentally running some animation? It feels very unnatural.
As others here noted, I can't find any noteworthy addition (actually none? maybe I'm not very observant) to the features the actual HN has. I'd appreciate a more thorough explanation of this.
A UI refresh is certainly not a bad idea (although the existing content density is hard to match), but this "modern" UI looks like the average Bootstrap website from 10 years ago with a few extra shadows and transparency. I enabled Javascript to test the theme switching and discovered that scrolling becomes very laggy (on a phone). Perhaps you're accidentally running some animation? It feels very unnatural.