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Be honest: if you had not written this comment, would you have subscribed in six months if they started looking like Medium 2.0?

• johncolanduoni 10y ago
  The complaints in this thread are mostly things like spacing and broken layouts, not fancy web X.0 fads. Hacker News is stylistically simple, but they still pay attention to making the content readable without strain.
  • riffraff 10y ago
    > Hacker News is stylistically simple, but they still pay attention to making the content readable without strain. really? The font size is smaller here than on LWN, and the width of the text is smaller on LWN than on HN. Comment metadata is slightly better on HN, but largely because on LWN you can put a comment title and here you can't.
  • Retr0spectrum 10y ago
    HN style is very functional and practical, but I wouldn't describe it as "readable without strain". The poor text contrast in many places makes it borderline unreadable, text posts in particular. My second complaint would be that line lengths are often too long to be easily readable.
  • r3bl 10y ago
    I disagree with the HN comment. I always look at it at 140% zoom on my desktop, I had to add some CSS rules using Stylish to make it look a bit more eye-appealing to me (nothing fancy, I just prefer reading on a dark background), nested comments are a beautiful thing for a discussion, but they're a mess when you're on a smartphone that nobody figured out how to adjust properly...