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Literally the reason why he won't fix it is because typographers were condescending to him: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1228042394727149568 https://twitte

Literally the reason why he won't fix it is because typographers were condescending to him: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1228042394727149568 https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1228042394727149568

3pt14159 5y ago
Ok, well I'll talk to him personally if he'll listen. I have eye issues and even if I bump the size up 300% it's still really hard to read. I don't know how else to say this but he's inadvertantly destroying the experience of his website for lots of people. Many of whom wouldn't even consider themself as disabled. I think if he could sit next to me and see how I suffer he wouldn't need scientific studies any more than he'd need a scientific study about how cows feel when they get hit by a car. They moo their disappointment about the fact that their ribcare is broken.
dan-robertson 5y ago
That seems like an incorrect reading of the thread. Seems more like ‘I like long lines and found little evidence that they are bad.’ I think I believe that he’s read roughly all the studies and that they are unconvincing. That doesn’t mean they’re aren’t people for whom the formatting is problematic. I think it’s also a bit of countersignalling about the nature of the blog. There are also easy workarounds like making your window narrower or using your web browsers built-in ‘reader mode’ or opening up the inspector and adding a single style to the body element to set a max-width, so I’ve never really understood this problem.
- albedoa 5y ago
  > I’ve never really understood this problem. Oh no way. Yet here you are, despite having the option to say nothing at all about the problem you don't understand. You absolutely do not need to go to bat for someone who requires convincing from studies about obvious things. What a weird and sad way to live this, your one and only life. Hope he sees this.

Literally the reason why he won't fix it is because typographers were condescending to him: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1228042394727149568 https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1228042394727149568

3pt14159 5y ago

Ok, well I'll talk to him personally if he'll listen. I have eye issues and even if I bump the size up 300% it's still really hard to read. I don't know how else to say this but he's inadvertantly destroying the experience of his website for lots of people. Many of whom wouldn't even consider themself as disabled. I think if he could sit next to me and see how I suffer he wouldn't need scientific studies any more than he'd need a scientific study about how cows feel when they get hit by a car. They moo their disappointment about the fact that their ribcare is broken.

dan-robertson 5y ago

That seems like an incorrect reading of the thread. Seems more like ‘I like long lines and found little evidence that they are bad.’ I think I believe that he’s read roughly all the studies and that they are unconvincing. That doesn’t mean they’re aren’t people for whom the formatting is problematic. I think it’s also a bit of countersignalling about the nature of the blog. There are also easy workarounds like making your window narrower or using your web browsers built-in ‘reader mode’ or opening up the inspector and adding a single style to the body element to set a max-width, so I’ve never really understood this problem.

albedoa 5y ago
> I’ve never really understood this problem. Oh no way. Yet here you are, despite having the option to say nothing at all about the problem you don't understand. You absolutely do not need to go to bat for someone who requires convincing from studies about obvious things. What a weird and sad way to live this, your one and only life. Hope he sees this.