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The background color on that site makes it very painful to read. Author, if you're on HN, please make this something more normal.
by grumple 5y ago
The background color on that site makes it very painful to read. Author, if you're on HN, please make this something more normal.
- jodrellblank 5y ago"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pcthrowaway 5y agoAlright, but discussing how a UI is hostile to a user trying to understand the content surely falls within the HN guidelines. Chrome doesn't have a reader mode does it? I want to read the article, but it causes actual eye pain. This isn't an annoyance like back-button breakage. It's a design issue with a very easy fix that makes it impossible to read this for (at least) some people
- nickkell 5y agoNormally I'd agree with you, but that website is a particularly horrendous shade of green. I had to put on sunglasses to read the article