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Great site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users? I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox

Great site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users? I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help. (I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it) If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.

warpech 4y ago
A relevant quote from the linked article: > I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever. But for real, the styling is just copied from the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 4y ago
  That's so good I'm tempted to replace the existing rule with it.
  - alexvoda 4y ago
    I find it incredible that this was written by an AI and it translated: > back-button breakage into > the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button It's a remarkably good translation. Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions".
    - dang 4y ago
      > Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions". I noticed that too. I wonder what a more precise wording would be.
      - alexvoda 4y ago
        Homonyms. The unfortunate reuse of a name for an unrelated thing.
- chernevik 4y ago
  Should > "They are so common" be "These are so common" ?
imgabe 4y ago
It has the same look as the HN guidelines. Reader mode seems to work on the HN guidelines page, but not on this page, although the markup appears to be the same. Not sure what's up with that.

warpech 4y ago

A relevant quote from the linked article: > I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever. But for real, the styling is just copied from the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 4y ago
That's so good I'm tempted to replace the existing rule with it.
- alexvoda 4y ago
  I find it incredible that this was written by an AI and it translated: > back-button breakage into > the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button It's a remarkably good translation. Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions".
  - dang 4y ago
    > Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions". I noticed that too. I wonder what a more precise wording would be.
    - alexvoda 4y ago
      Homonyms. The unfortunate reuse of a name for an unrelated thing.
chernevik 4y ago
Should > "They are so common" be "These are so common" ?

imgabe 4y ago

It has the same look as the HN guidelines. Reader mode seems to work on the HN guidelines page, but not on this page, although the markup appears to be the same. Not sure what's up with that.