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https://outline.com/wjH4U8 https://outline.com/wjH4U8 For anyone else that refuses to read ~2500 words in black text on a gray background.

theandrewbailey 7y ago
Reader mode works, too.
spectramax 7y ago
Without meaning offense to anyone, I just don't understand how something as fundamental as this can be overlooked when writing a blog post. Personally, it gives off an impression that if the author didn't spend a second thinking about their audience and how they might read the blog, I become skeptical about the content itself (which is probably an overreaction on my part). I can't help it. The author might as well write the post in all caps or something equally detrimental to readability.
- mikelyons 7y ago
  Authors are often not web designers.
- chc 7y ago
  This appears to be the website of a Michigan State University physics lab. Assuming a random writer on the lab's blog designed the site seems a bit unreasonable. It's also unlikely a professional designer has ever touched this site, so...yeah, it's a bit unprofessional. I'm sure most of us would make embarrassing mistakes if we had to do something outside of our field of expertise and then subjected it to critique. I think there's a valid point to be made that they should put more effort into accessibility, but trying to say a writer's science is suspect because the lab's graphic design is bad is just unreasonable IMO.
  - spectramax 7y ago
    Yea, I can't help to think like that but as I said it is an overraction on my part. Replacing Author with WebDesigner - How can a webdesigner design something so ridiculously un-userfriendly, entirely defeating the purpose of what a blog is supposed to do. These kinds of things bother me as I put myself in their shoes and try to imagine all kinds of things that person might have been caught up on - let's assume the best.

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https://outline.com/wjH4U8 https://outline.com/wjH4U8 For anyone else that refuses to read ~2500 words in black text on a gray background.

by ravitation 7y ago

theandrewbailey 7y ago
Reader mode works, too.
spectramax 7y ago
Without meaning offense to anyone, I just don't understand how something as fundamental as this can be overlooked when writing a blog post. Personally, it gives off an impression that if the author didn't spend a second thinking about their audience and how they might read the blog, I become skeptical about the content itself (which is probably an overreaction on my part). I can't help it. The author might as well write the post in all caps or something equally detrimental to readability.
- mikelyons 7y ago
  Authors are often not web designers.
- chc 7y ago
  This appears to be the website of a Michigan State University physics lab. Assuming a random writer on the lab's blog designed the site seems a bit unreasonable. It's also unlikely a professional designer has ever touched this site, so...yeah, it's a bit unprofessional. I'm sure most of us would make embarrassing mistakes if we had to do something outside of our field of expertise and then subjected it to critique. I think there's a valid point to be made that they should put more effort into accessibility, but trying to say a writer's science is suspect because the lab's graphic design is bad is just unreasonable IMO.
  - spectramax 7y ago
    Yea, I can't help to think like that but as I said it is an overraction on my part. Replacing Author with WebDesigner - How can a webdesigner design something so ridiculously un-userfriendly, entirely defeating the purpose of what a blog is supposed to do. These kinds of things bother me as I put myself in their shoes and try to imagine all kinds of things that person might have been caught up on - let's assume the best.