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Multiple people are liking your site, but I shall express a dissenting opinion (with details of specifically what I disliked): yes, it has character, but it was
by chrismorgan 5y ago
Multiple people are liking your site, but I shall express a dissenting opinion (with details of specifically what I disliked): yes, it has character, but it was significantly overpowering and I didn’t like the presentation at all. (Its content I genuinely can’t comment on: I’ve been too severely distracted and disconcerted by the presentation.) A big unreadable title (the style of lettering makes it difficult to discern which strokes belong to which letter, and having it 500px tall against a distracting background makes it even harder to read, it’s just so big) with a fixed-attachment background (I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever found a case where I think that was actually warranted); then continual blocks of text in NewEddy, an uppercase-only display serif font that’s simply hard/uncomfortable to read. Body text in a monospace face, which is not good for reading in English (any time I come across blog posts that I actually want to read but where the site is using monospace body text, I nuke that style and breathe a sigh of relief). Then the marquee with parallax at the bottom somehow managed to be enter a class of disconcertion of its own, and that was before I discovered it was supposed to be a video (I have autoplay turned very firmly off, thank you very much), which improves some aspects and makes others worse. And finally I’ll mention the excessively low-contrast header that also collides with what’s underneath it at any given moment, and the footer footnote’s similarly badly low contrast.
- oldstrangers 5y agoWell Chris, you're not my target audience, and that's ok. The site is intentionally very over the top, and not everyone will like it. That's sort of the entire point, you take risks and you're always going to have people that dislike it. There's lots of money in the margins, and that's where we want to exist. Anywho, I'm honestly surprised not more people hated it.