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That is a horrible font to read anything more than a headline.

• rendall 3y ago
  > "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • rerdavies 3y ago
    I appreciate the spirit in which that comment is made, but... The website is deeply, substantially difficult to read. It takes significant effort to read that site. It's actually startling how difficult that site is to read. It might even be worth having an entire discussion on why that site is so difficult read. By the time I reached the end, I was left with an unsettling feeling that anyone who cares so little about whether what they wrote is legible might also not be particularly careful about whether what they wrote is true. Presentation does matter.
    • keepamovin 3y ago
      It’s not that hard. Sure the font is not the fanciest web design front but course you can read it, don’t be ridiculous. You can just scan your eyes from left to right and from top to bottom and you read all the words. Hahaha
      • nickthegreek 3y ago
        It is that hard. They are not being ridiculous.
        • keepamovin 3y ago
          No, it really is not that hard. It truly is ridiculous to state that it’s impossible to read. If that were true how would you know what it was saying in order to disagree with it? But like your ad hominem, it’s an irrelevant point, sorry.
          • nickthegreek 3y ago
            Not everyone’s visual acuity is the same. Is it so hard to take a step out of your world and recognize that some people might actually have a very hard time to read that? Point me to a single major website is even remotely like this. You won’t find one. Also, you might want to read up on what an ad hominem is so you can use it correctly in the future.
            • keepamovin 3y ago
              That's right, not everyone's. So when you say "is it so hard..." to consider someone else's viewpoint, I think you should take that seriously! Hahaha > Also, you might want to read up on what an ad hominem is so you can use it correctly in the future. Oh, okay, is that what I might wanna do? Hahaha. No, you wouldn't know. I guess you're the ad hominem expert, tho, right? That's you trying to do it there? I see you just want to fight. I'm not here for that, sorry. Did you get upset? I suppose you couldn't take that criticism of what you were doing, so you had to try to flip it around! Hahaha, not exactly a recipe for improvement, is it? Hahaha.
      • rerdavies 3y ago
        Running 1980x1080, the horizontal strokes on many characters in the font disappear on my monitor. It's completely unreadable. Zooming in helps, a bit. But at anything less than 3x zoom it is completely unreadable. (Chrome on windows 10, Chromium on Linux, both are broken). 20-20 vision, so it's not a vision-impairment thing. The font weight is too light. It's not a body font, it's a display font. And using small-caps for body text is absurd. I read some of it. It was too exhausting to read all of it. Not worth the effort.
    • rendall 3y ago
      It is literally a quote from the community guidelines. The spirit of the comment was an exhortation to follow them.