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> Why is it hard to buy things that work well? Asks someone that posts a giant wall of unreadable text.

by zabzonk 5y ago

t-writescode 5y ago
Looks good on my phone. I guess not all writers are poets. What did you think of the content of what they said?
- thrill 5y ago
  It's hard to appreciate the content when you can't get through the wrapping.
  - mi100hael 5y ago
    You know you can make your window narrower than 4000px, right?
OJFord 5y ago
How much did you pay for that experience that you expected to work better? Even if we say that's an accurate description there's no irony.
- zabzonk 5y ago
  > How much did you pay for that experience that you expected to work better? What? I expect people to put a little effort into what they are trying to comminicate - I know I try to. Not always succeeding, obviously
  - t-writescode 5y ago
    They've put quite a bit of effort into it. That much text is a lot of work. For what it's worth, their Patreon nets over 3000 / month, so quite a few people think they put in just the right amount of effort, or even above and beyond :)
WithinReason 5y ago
In Firefox press F9
SquibblesRedux 5y ago
With Chrome Desktop, and a fairly wide browser window (1475px in my case, required by many web applications), the text is small with minimal margins, and practically illegible. If I shrink the browser width considerably (to a minimum width) then the text does look good, like an ebook. Typesetting matters.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  > the text is small [Ctrl]-[+]|: > If I shrink the browser width considerably (to a minimum width) then the text does look good Pro tip: So do that, then. > Typesetting matters. WTF is this, Hacker News or Artsy-Fartsy Designer News? (Lawn, off, etc.)
jotm 5y ago
Haha, yeah, but actually it reminded me of old Web pages. Just text, format it however you want (make the product good yourself!), nothing in the way, just the content. I'm surprised how much I've gotten used to fancy websites, colors and formatting.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  > I'm surprised how much I've gotten used to fancy websites, colors and formatting. I'm more dismayed.
kroltan 5y ago
The website has basically no CSS, so it's up to your user agent to decide on its default presentation. Just so happens that modern user agents don't really care about bare HTML, just CSS and JavaScript, so your default presentation is optimized to 1990s hardware at 800x600. I guess "reader mode" is slang for "what the user-agent should be doing to make documents reasonable for modern displays", so press that button in your user-agent.
- compilerone 5y ago
  I'm usually just in reading mode, but occasionally I turn it off to see a/the blogs design because I feel it gives just a little bit more context to any post of text (for example, the author has a playful design and it gives me a small idea of their character). Unfortunate it's hardly readable, but it still says something about the author. HN is fun :)

> Why is it hard to buy things that work well? Asks someone that posts a giant wall of unreadable text.

t-writescode 5y ago

Looks good on my phone. I guess not all writers are poets. What did you think of the content of what they said?

thrill 5y ago
It's hard to appreciate the content when you can't get through the wrapping.
- mi100hael 5y ago
  You know you can make your window narrower than 4000px, right?

OJFord 5y ago

How much did you pay for that experience that you expected to work better? Even if we say that's an accurate description there's no irony.

zabzonk 5y ago
> How much did you pay for that experience that you expected to work better? What? I expect people to put a little effort into what they are trying to comminicate - I know I try to. Not always succeeding, obviously
- t-writescode 5y ago
  They've put quite a bit of effort into it. That much text is a lot of work. For what it's worth, their Patreon nets over 3000 / month, so quite a few people think they put in just the right amount of effort, or even above and beyond :)

WithinReason 5y ago

In Firefox press F9

SquibblesRedux 5y ago

With Chrome Desktop, and a fairly wide browser window (1475px in my case, required by many web applications), the text is small with minimal margins, and practically illegible. If I shrink the browser width considerably (to a minimum width) then the text does look good, like an ebook. Typesetting matters.

CRConrad 5y ago
> the text is small [Ctrl]-[+]|: > If I shrink the browser width considerably (to a minimum width) then the text does look good Pro tip: So do that, then. > Typesetting matters. WTF is this, Hacker News or Artsy-Fartsy Designer News? (Lawn, off, etc.)

jotm 5y ago

Haha, yeah, but actually it reminded me of old Web pages. Just text, format it however you want (make the product good yourself!), nothing in the way, just the content. I'm surprised how much I've gotten used to fancy websites, colors and formatting.

CRConrad 5y ago
> I'm surprised how much I've gotten used to fancy websites, colors and formatting. I'm more dismayed.

kroltan 5y ago

The website has basically no CSS, so it's up to your user agent to decide on its default presentation. Just so happens that modern user agents don't really care about bare HTML, just CSS and JavaScript, so your default presentation is optimized to 1990s hardware at 800x600. I guess "reader mode" is slang for "what the user-agent should be doing to make documents reasonable for modern displays", so press that button in your user-agent.

compilerone 5y ago
I'm usually just in reading mode, but occasionally I turn it off to see a/the blogs design because I feel it gives just a little bit more context to any post of text (for example, the author has a playful design and it gives me a small idea of their character). Unfortunate it's hardly readable, but it still says something about the author. HN is fun :)