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The first time I saw this blog posted on HN I wondered how it could possibly be popular with such horrendous layout. The conclusion I came to is that the audie
by gnicholas 3y ago
The first time I saw this blog posted on HN I wondered how it could possibly be popular with such horrendous layout.
The conclusion I came to is that the audience is very tech-savvy and is used to activating Reader Mode when they encounter pages like this.
- lstamour 3y agoActually when I hit pages like this, I use the increase font size buttons. I tend to do this on phones too, especially. Yes, reader mode is also an option, but just bumping up the font size works too. You could also go back to the days when we had 800x600 monitors and 16px tended to be just the right size for that. ;-)
- chmod775 3y agoI went with the other techie solution: resizing my browser window.
- mardifoufs 3y agoHow do you do that on mobile?
- skydhash 3y agoWho read article like this on mobile? In a pinch, I'd just activate Reader Mode (Safari, iOS), or more likely save it for reading on a bigger screen (tablet, laptop,…)
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoI just read it on Firefox mobile without reader mode.
- pbronez 3y agoRead it on iOS Safari, without reader mode. Worked great. Only thing that annoyed me is that there are very lengthy appendices. Thus the scroll bar suggests the main article is much longer than it actually is.
- wcedmisten 3y ago> Who read article like this on mobile? The irony of this on an article about how developers ignore users on low-performance mobile devices
- chmod775 3y agoFlip the phone into portrait mode.
- dxdm 3y agoFirefox on Android has a button to activate Reader Mode right in the URL bar.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIts already perfectly readable on mobile either vertically or horizontally (a rare affordance these days)
- youngtaff 3y agoMight be for you, but the tiny text and cramped line height makes it painful for me Pretty sure the text size is likely to be marginal from an accessibility PoV, and the line length doesn’t aid readability
- db48x 3y agoThis page doesn’t specify _any_ font size. It relies on your browser to choose an appropriate size instead. If the text is too small for you to read, then your browser settings for default font size are wrong.
- gnicholas 3y agoSince I have a ton of tabs open and jump between them, this ends up not being a solution I use anymore.
- mardifoufs 3y agoIt's more of a hipster thing imo. For some people since it's minimalist and looks "old" , it must be good. Like I get keeping it simple but man it's CSS..
- anon373839 3y agoYep, exactly. It's fashion. FOUC-chic.
- joeblubaugh 3y agoDan’s site has been like this for over a decade. If it’s a fashion, then he’s one of the creators of it.
- anon373839 3y agoBrutalist web design has been a thing for a while: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/09/the-hottest-trend-in-web-design-is-intentionally-ugly-unusable-sites/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05... Some of it can be appealing, when basic ergonomic needs are met (readable text size and line length, adequate margins, and so forth). Most is just brutally pretentious, IMO.
- literallycancer 3y agoThe text fills the entire screen on mobile. That's a lot better than reading something where there's 50% of whitespace.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoOr better yet a postage stamp of text between two ad players and a header and footer banner