True, my comment was a bit quick off the block. I didn't mean to imply that the average HN user and the average web-forum-programmer were anything similar. Exc

True, my comment was a bit quick off the block. I didn't mean to imply that the average HN user and the average web-forum-programmer were anything similar. Except, perhaps, aesthetically. Maybe I'm wrong here too, but a failed visual design for HN readers is probably a failed design for the average web-forum-programmer, too.