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What's wrong with their UI? Using https://hackaday.com/2021/05/22/irc-will-never-die/ https://hackaday.com/2021/05/22/irc-will-never-die/ as an example Seems t
by capableweb 5y ago
What's wrong with their UI? Using https://hackaday.com/2021/05/22/irc-will-never-die/ https://hackaday.com/2021/05/22/irc-will-never-die/ as an example
Seems the contrast is excellent and no obvious disturbing layout choices. Fairly traditional layout although I'm not a fan of the white on black as I sit in the sun a lot, but generally it seems quite good if you compare it with most random blogs out there.
- CamperBob2 5y agoThere's a reason why nothing, but nothing, of any importance or popularity uses white text on a black background.
- capableweb 5y agoOk, I'll bite. What's that reason? Because as long as the contrast is there, there is no obvious reason why using that color scheme would lead to less importance or popularity.
- CamperBob2 5y agoBecause objective studies have repeatedly shown it's harder to read white text on a black screen, compared to the dark-on-light text that 99.9% of everything else on the planet uses. It's a way of sending the message, "It's my site, not yours. I don't care if you don't find it legible. Everybody else is wrong, and I'm right."
- WanderPanda 5y agoOn an iPhone 11 there is about 1cm of vertical space for the content a recurrent reader wants to see: The latest article. Used to be better a couple years ago. Also “From the blog” is not emphasizing that these are actually the most recent articles from the blog and not some random selection