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Cool project. Some ideas: - let users play with fonts/colors/spacing to find their optimum setup. - aggregate user preferences to find good defaults Then yo
by klochner 16y ago
Cool project. Some ideas:
- let users play with fonts/colors/spacing to find their optimum setup.
- aggregate user preferences to find good defaults
Then you have an interesting blog post to write.
I think you should blow away the scrolling and have just two controls: chunk size and speed. Personally I found chunk size ~50 to be ideal.
- robinduckett 16y agoOn the second point, how do you suggest I go around doing that? As for the "blow away the scrolling", I made this to be configurable, sure it's nice to be simple, but I made it so I could tweak it on the fly. You wouldn't have found any chunk size to be ideal if I hadn't made it editable in the first place :P
- klochner 16y agoOn the second point, how about: "log in to save your preferences!" As for "blow away the scrolling", I guess I'm channeling steve jobs: "This is the right way to do it." People could prefer scrolling text, but from everything I know about reading, they ultimately will read faster if they use chunks.
- robinduckett 16y agoWell it's forkable on github, knock yourself out, Steve :P
- klochner 16y agoif it's cool with you ... didn't want to steal your thunder :)
- pook 16y agoMaking this a readability-style bookmarklet or plugin would be awesome. I would love a "Speedify" button