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Dude I literally own it. We love the way our site looks. We made it this way with a lot of thought and care. It's not for everyone, however.

supercoder 10y ago
I came here looking for these comments, knowing the crowd. Didn't expect to find you here though. So just want to add - The Outline is one of the freshest aesthetics I've seen in a long time. I get it and I love it. Nice job.
throwanem 10y ago
I mean I get that it's your baby and you and whoever else worked on it are super into the style. I'm super not, but why do you care? You've got your statement to make. "That's just, like, your opinion, man, it's not for everybody" still comes off whiny, though. That said, good call not breaking reader mode, so the less avant garde among us don't have to choose between bouncing and getting a headache. Super-saturated background for unsaturated text? Seriously? I mean, the luminance contrast is good and all, but Jesus. How is this not literally painful for you guys to look at on Apple displays? Even on a Dell it stings.
optymizer 10y ago
What people are saying is that the web does look like shit, and your website is part of the problem. Unfortunately for you, the web _is_ for everyone. It's for everyone on HN, it's for people with disabilities, it's for people who have a 32" desktop screen that don't need your shitty hamburger menu and giant font size, it's for people with color blindness, it's for people who want to read the content, not marvel at your silly squiggly lines. Saying that "my design is not for everyone" in such a dismissive manner is deliberately showing the middle finger to everyone who is outside of your group and people are calling you out on that. Your submission is objectively ironic, regardless of what YOU think.
- throwanem 10y ago
  Yeah, but this looks like shit on purpose. The article's complaining about pages that look like shit by accident. Totally different, don't you know.
  - nojvek 10y ago
    I clicked on the actual site. Took 5 seconds to load and a bunch of things wiggling on the page. Navigation was like snapchat style with full page ads. Lots or chrome reducing actual readable area. Contrast for text isn't that great for readability. Definitely classifies as "looks like shit" in my book.
    - throwanem 10y ago
      Also, just throwing it out here, 6e80b054e26bd9dad7934a0bb10699451e59f833.

supercoder 10y ago

I came here looking for these comments, knowing the crowd. Didn't expect to find you here though. So just want to add - The Outline is one of the freshest aesthetics I've seen in a long time. I get it and I love it. Nice job.

throwanem 10y ago

I mean I get that it's your baby and you and whoever else worked on it are super into the style. I'm super not, but why do you care? You've got your statement to make. "That's just, like, your opinion, man, it's not for everybody" still comes off whiny, though. That said, good call not breaking reader mode, so the less avant garde among us don't have to choose between bouncing and getting a headache. Super-saturated background for unsaturated text? Seriously? I mean, the luminance contrast is good and all, but Jesus. How is this not literally painful for you guys to look at on Apple displays? Even on a Dell it stings.

optymizer 10y ago

What people are saying is that the web does look like shit, and your website is part of the problem. Unfortunately for you, the web _is_ for everyone. It's for everyone on HN, it's for people with disabilities, it's for people who have a 32" desktop screen that don't need your shitty hamburger menu and giant font size, it's for people with color blindness, it's for people who want to read the content, not marvel at your silly squiggly lines. Saying that "my design is not for everyone" in such a dismissive manner is deliberately showing the middle finger to everyone who is outside of your group and people are calling you out on that. Your submission is objectively ironic, regardless of what YOU think.

throwanem 10y ago
Yeah, but this looks like shit on purpose. The article's complaining about pages that look like shit by accident. Totally different, don't you know.
- nojvek 10y ago
  I clicked on the actual site. Took 5 seconds to load and a bunch of things wiggling on the page. Navigation was like snapchat style with full page ads. Lots or chrome reducing actual readable area. Contrast for text isn't that great for readability. Definitely classifies as "looks like shit" in my book.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Also, just throwing it out here, 6e80b054e26bd9dad7934a0bb10699451e59f833.