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Tangent: I appreciate what they are doing with their solar-powered server, but they could make the site so much easier to read by removing the whole-page overla
by mattlondon 6y ago
Tangent: I appreciate what they are doing with their solar-powered server, but they could make the site so much easier to read by removing the whole-page overlay to be something less obnoxious and irritating to read when half the page is yellow and half is not.
Perhaps a thing to let you "minimise" it so it only takes up a 1cm bar on the side, or a thing to just let you dismiss/hide it entirely?
Also for the image dithering, it kinda feels like they've gone too far with that - I guess it is a stylistic thing to have huge huge huge dithered images that at best don't fit on a single screen at once or at worst require you to scroll past 2 or 3 screen heights worth (e.g. "A 6-nozzle mist shower" one), yet with a resolution so low you can't actually read the text (NASA image)?
In my opinion it would be better to have higher resolution dithered images, that are just physically smaller and fit on one screen (I am using a 1920x1080 1x1-DPI so not exactly huge by modern standards but not tiny) so that the file-size balances out.
I found the article really hard to read due to the 50/50 yellow-not yellow and the absurdly large low-res pictures that I needed to scroll to see the entire thing but actually cant see because the resolution is so poor. Sorry. :(
- franciscop 6y agoI actually enjoyed the overlay and the image format.