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I couldn't read the article, on the monitor of the ancient workstation I am using, the article is impossible to read, seemly they assumed everyone by now would

I couldn't read the article, on the monitor of the ancient workstation I am using, the article is impossible to read, seemly they assumed everyone by now would have 1080p monitors or something, the site has a giant fixed menubar on the top, and a even bigger "subscribe me" bar on the bottom, and these almost touch on my screen, leaving like 3 lines of readable text on the middle... It is just silly. EDIT: for a while this reached 10 points, now it is at 2... makes me wonder, what I wrote so horribly wrong that deserves all these downvotes?

codetrotter 6y ago
On the mobile site the subscribe thingy that covers most of the screen can be closed by tapping the x in the corner of it. Was this not the case on your desktop?
- kevinhq 6y ago
  i don't see it. i've blocked it manually
mrmonkeyman 6y ago
1080 is ancient dude..
kevinhq 6y ago
same here. i need to block that huge "subscribe me" bar with ublock origin manually to read the article properly.
jeroenhd 6y ago
I can recommend Hide Fixed Elements [1] for badly designed websites like these. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-fixed-elements https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-fixed-el...
- codazoda 6y ago
  This is great. I wish for two things... 1. This should probably be on by default with some indication it's "working" 2. It makes me so sad that I can't use extensions like this on my Android browser
  - jeroenhd 6y ago
    In the old Firefox for Android you could, but sadly the ability to install any extension in the modern Firefox release is locked behind nightly features[1]. It's possible, though. although the API hasn't been implemented completely yet. Turning it on by default would break a lot of sites because they pop open one of those illegal cookie popups and disable scrolling until you've gone through it. If you can't see the window, all you get is a broken page with no explanation what went wrong. The addon is open source[2] so if you'd like the feature nonetheless, you should be able to do it with only a few lines of code. [1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio... [2]: https://github.com/andfarm/HideFixedElements https://github.com/andfarm/HideFixedElements
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
I'm going to have to send your post to our QA person who keeps complaining that stuff I make doesn't exactly match the design, which design was made for her Apple iMac 27, and is unable to understand that basically she is making the design version of a developer saying "but it runs on my machine".
Mister_Snuggles 6y ago
I have two suggestions to solve these problems: 1) Try uMatrix. It blocks third-party JavaScript by default, which is what's used to power a lot of these elements. I don't see the big "subscribe me" bar at the bottom, so I assume uMatrix is preventing the JavaScript that creates it from loading. This will also help with performance on your "ancient workstation". 2) Reader mode seems to eliminate all of this cruft and give you just the meat of the article to read.
reaperducer 6y ago
what I wrote so horribly wrong that deserves all these downvotes? There's a newish rule on HN that we're not supposed to complain about the look of the linked web sites. I don't mind when people point out that a site is unusable, because then I don't bother clicking through to it. But it's their site, so their rules.
donor20 6y ago
It's ironic, but sites with terrible design complaining about other sites with terrible design - HN rules say you can't call out their hypocrisy anymore :)

codetrotter 6y ago

On the mobile site the subscribe thingy that covers most of the screen can be closed by tapping the x in the corner of it. Was this not the case on your desktop?

kevinhq 6y ago
i don't see it. i've blocked it manually

mrmonkeyman 6y ago

1080 is ancient dude..

kevinhq 6y ago

same here. i need to block that huge "subscribe me" bar with ublock origin manually to read the article properly.

jeroenhd 6y ago

I can recommend Hide Fixed Elements [1] for badly designed websites like these. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-fixed-elements https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-fixed-el...

codazoda 6y ago
This is great. I wish for two things... 1. This should probably be on by default with some indication it's "working" 2. It makes me so sad that I can't use extensions like this on my Android browser
- jeroenhd 6y ago
  In the old Firefox for Android you could, but sadly the ability to install any extension in the modern Firefox release is locked behind nightly features[1]. It's possible, though. although the API hasn't been implemented completely yet. Turning it on by default would break a lot of sites because they pop open one of those illegal cookie popups and disable scrolling until you've gone through it. If you can't see the window, all you get is a broken page with no explanation what went wrong. The addon is open source[2] so if you'd like the feature nonetheless, you should be able to do it with only a few lines of code. [1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio... [2]: https://github.com/andfarm/HideFixedElements https://github.com/andfarm/HideFixedElements

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

I'm going to have to send your post to our QA person who keeps complaining that stuff I make doesn't exactly match the design, which design was made for her Apple iMac 27, and is unable to understand that basically she is making the design version of a developer saying "but it runs on my machine".

Mister_Snuggles 6y ago

I have two suggestions to solve these problems: 1) Try uMatrix. It blocks third-party JavaScript by default, which is what's used to power a lot of these elements. I don't see the big "subscribe me" bar at the bottom, so I assume uMatrix is preventing the JavaScript that creates it from loading. This will also help with performance on your "ancient workstation". 2) Reader mode seems to eliminate all of this cruft and give you just the meat of the article to read.

reaperducer 6y ago

what I wrote so horribly wrong that deserves all these downvotes? There's a newish rule on HN that we're not supposed to complain about the look of the linked web sites. I don't mind when people point out that a site is unusable, because then I don't bother clicking through to it. But it's their site, so their rules.

donor20 6y ago

It's ironic, but sites with terrible design complaining about other sites with terrible design - HN rules say you can't call out their hypocrisy anymore :)