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> That sort of minimalist looking webpage using a big round font for the headers really does make it hard to absorb the gist of the post - sorry, have I overrea
by stonogo 8y ago
> That sort of minimalist looking webpage using a big round font for the headers really does make it hard to absorb the gist of the post - sorry, have I overreacted?
I agree, but fortunately for us the people who adopt this weird presentation format almost universally write in a very specific style. I find it easier to just read the headers (or, if they're really bad writers, the headers plus the sentences they felt necessary to typeset in bold), since that's usually the whole message. The rest is some kind of weird boilerplate, like the narrative version of lorem ipsum.
If there were more consistency in HTML tag usage I'd write a browser extension to throw everything away except the useful text, but we haven't reached that design mecca yet.
- petercooper 8y agoI'm trying to figure out what both you and the grandparent poster are getting at. Usually on HN we're criticizing people for having too much crap on their pages, hard to decipher designs, tiny text, and what not.. not that their pages are clean and minimalist. What's "weird" about a clean page that's mostly text?
- nurettin 8y agoIt was bikeshedding. Possibly meant as irony.
- petercooper 8y agoThanks, OK, I'm glad there's at least a chance it was humor I didn't pick up on :-)