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Somewhat ironically one of the best examples of absurdly awful UI/UX because someone decided they know best.

TylerE 2y ago
Far from the worst accessibility thing just on HN. I will now beat the “grey in slightly darker grey” is not an acceptable color scheme drum again.
- krapp 2y ago
  You know perfectly well Hacker news is the apex of efficiency and minimalism, and that "good hackers" don't care about trivial nonsense like "accessibility" or "readability" or "user experience," only the purity of signal over noise. Now go to the blackboard and reverse binary trees until you've learned your lesson.
  - badsectoracula 2y ago
    Considering the site uses a bunch of CSS classes that end up always using the same visual style (e.g. black text), i'd say that "good hackers" can use Stylus or some other similar addon and customize the site's look. You can do a lot of customization with it, while overall my HN looks 90% the same as the default style (since i don't dislike it), i have done some customizations like making every other comment have a slightly darker background (to easily distinguish them when scrolling) and added some color to distinguish different parts of each post.
    - ndriscoll 2y ago
      You don't even need to be a "good hacker". Just go into browser settings, set your preferred colors, and set it to disallow sites from setting their own colors (mobile browsers seem to have removed this functionality for some reason, but desktop ones still have it).
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  If you happen to have a CSS manager such as Stylus installed: <https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd> (That's what I'm driving now.)
  - theendisney 2y ago
    Just closing the page would be the usual approach. As no one uses such poor contrast it does reflect poorly on yc. If someone forces a tiny font on me (i cant read it) I try zoom like the way you read pdf on mobile but it dramatically/needlessly raises the bar for how interesting the text needs to be.
    - dredmorbius 2y ago
      I agree with most of that. I find HN ... mostly ... more worthwhile than not. The styling / UI/UX is abysmal. That said, if you've the option to install a CSS style manager on your platform(s) of choice (Firefox desktop or Android, Chrome and Safari desktop), you have agency to change the situation and I've provided the styling to fix most of your major gripes (which are also mine). And that said, I've said that which I care to.
aaron695 2y ago
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Far from the worst accessibility thing just on HN. I will now beat the “grey in slightly darker grey” is not an acceptable color scheme drum again.

krapp 2y ago
You know perfectly well Hacker news is the apex of efficiency and minimalism, and that "good hackers" don't care about trivial nonsense like "accessibility" or "readability" or "user experience," only the purity of signal over noise. Now go to the blackboard and reverse binary trees until you've learned your lesson.
- badsectoracula 2y ago
  Considering the site uses a bunch of CSS classes that end up always using the same visual style (e.g. black text), i'd say that "good hackers" can use Stylus or some other similar addon and customize the site's look. You can do a lot of customization with it, while overall my HN looks 90% the same as the default style (since i don't dislike it), i have done some customizations like making every other comment have a slightly darker background (to easily distinguish them when scrolling) and added some color to distinguish different parts of each post.
  - ndriscoll 2y ago
    You don't even need to be a "good hacker". Just go into browser settings, set your preferred colors, and set it to disallow sites from setting their own colors (mobile browsers seem to have removed this functionality for some reason, but desktop ones still have it).
dredmorbius 2y ago
If you happen to have a CSS manager such as Stylus installed: <https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd> (That's what I'm driving now.)
- theendisney 2y ago
  Just closing the page would be the usual approach. As no one uses such poor contrast it does reflect poorly on yc. If someone forces a tiny font on me (i cant read it) I try zoom like the way you read pdf on mobile but it dramatically/needlessly raises the bar for how interesting the text needs to be.
  - dredmorbius 2y ago
    I agree with most of that. I find HN ... mostly ... more worthwhile than not. The styling / UI/UX is abysmal. That said, if you've the option to install a CSS style manager on your platform(s) of choice (Firefox desktop or Android, Chrome and Safari desktop), you have agency to change the situation and I've provided the styling to fix most of your major gripes (which are also mine). And that said, I've said that which I care to.

aaron695 2y ago

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