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This from the guy whose site is one of the most difficult to read sites on the net. Come on now... Come on, seriously? It's one column of text with one column
by jbigelow76 9y ago
This from the guy whose site is one of the most difficult to read sites on the net. Come on now...
Come on, seriously? It's one column of text with one column of navigation and a single small non-animated, non-video ad unit, and the text/background has decent contrast. What's the difficult part?
You don't like his opinions fine, but difficult to read that site is not.
- x0x0 9y agoI find the text very small (that's easily remedied); the white on blueish gray to be difficult to read; and most of the space on the page wasted. Even hitting cmd-+ a couple times I can't get text to use more than half the horizontal space.
- JoshMnem 9y agoIf you're using Firefox, click "Reading view" (the book icon). In Chrome the Pocket extension should work.
- andrewingram 9y agoYeah, a baseline font size of 11px is far too small. These days I tend to advocate for 18px or 21px for body copy (Medium is 21px).
- wyclif 9y agoThe design of Gruber's site is very 2010. It looks quite dated now.
- linkmotif 9y agoThis site is totally illegible for me. Yes I can always increase the font size but the default is just tiny. The whole site is unpleasant. I still can't get over realizing 5 years ago why Google always directed me to this site when I would googled "markdown". When I realzied this was the guy who made markdown and so I had to read his site as an authoritative source... It's ironic he complains a lot about usability, etc.