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It's clear that a lot of love and attention to detail has gone into the making of this website. I like the typography, I like the layout on desktop, I feel like

by wanda 5y ago

It's clear that a lot of love and attention to detail has gone into the making of this website. I like the typography, I like the layout on desktop, I feel like that's very much complete, apart from one thing I'll mention later. As another person has commented, it does feel inspired by Tufte stuff — though I actually find the Tufte CSS implementation to be preferable to look at aesthetically and preferable for actually consuming content: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ Things I would change: - the pop-up windows when hovering links etc. are incredibly annoying. There is a button to get rid of them, but that button needs to be on the side with the other customisation options imho - vertical spacing would look better than indentation for new paragraphs on mobile, it would help the text not look so densely packed, but maybe that's just my preference. It's usable just feels like the text is squashed in (I'm looking at it on an iPhone X). The choice of indentation for new paragraphs looks fine on desktop. but that's just me and I'm no one and my opinion is meaningless.

gwern 5y ago
Putting the eye-disable button into the theme toggle isn't a bad idea. I used the most common icon I could find for the idea of 'disabling' and made it prominent in each popup, but people still don't seem to realize it's there. Maybe it needs even more prominent billing. The indent vs newline thing is something that Said & I have long argued about. I like it somewhat more than newlines, but I feel that newlines is just too much of a convention online at this point, and even if indenting is correct, it alienates readers. (We haven't debated newline-on-mobile / indent-on-desktop before - he's not a fan of that either, turns out - although IMO the case for newline on mobile is stronger than on desktop.) We may have to do an A/B test at some point to see if there's a measurable effect.

by wanda 5y ago

gwern 5y ago

Putting the eye-disable button into the theme toggle isn't a bad idea. I used the most common icon I could find for the idea of 'disabling' and made it prominent in each popup, but people still don't seem to realize it's there. Maybe it needs even more prominent billing. The indent vs newline thing is something that Said & I have long argued about. I like it somewhat more than newlines, but I feel that newlines is just too much of a convention online at this point, and even if indenting is correct, it alienates readers. (We haven't debated newline-on-mobile / indent-on-desktop before - he's not a fan of that either, turns out - although IMO the case for newline on mobile is stronger than on desktop.) We may have to do an A/B test at some point to see if there's a measurable effect.