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The concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design/typography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to rea

The concept is good and its easier to scan than IAMA but the design/typography just hurts to read. I would probably fix that asap. Make it bigger, easier to read and change the font. In regards to your concerns of legality. Reddit seems to be ok with scrapers, bots and the like as long as you dont make more than 30 requests per minute.

xpose2000 14y ago
Do you have any suggestions on fonts to use for readability? I was looking through Google Web Fonts and came up short.
- nostromo 14y ago
  I'd recommend changing some CSS on the H2 elements. You have line-height and font-size both set to 15px, which gives the multi-line H2s no room to breath. I'd also ditch Open-Sans for Helvetica-Neue, which is more readable, remove font-weight:bold (it's too much bold on the page), and tweak the margins. Before: http://i.imgur.com/vaf7U.png http://i.imgur.com/vaf7U.png After: http://i.imgur.com/a8bHS.png http://i.imgur.com/a8bHS.png
  - xpose2000 14y ago
    Thanks a lot for those suggestions! That looks fantastic. I actually tried to get a designer on board to help with the front-end, but unfortunately he wasn't able to help out. So I did the best I could. :) I will definitely implement these font changes. :)
    - nostromo 14y ago
      radsauce :)
    - scottmey 14y ago
      This is great, it's been a minute since i've read any IAMA's and I just devoured about ten of them this morning...
  - redthrowaway 14y ago
    That looks really slick. Nice job.
twistedanimator 14y ago
A couple months ago, reddit started refusing requests from my web scraper. Figured out they started checking the user agent and refusing connections that didn't look like they came from a user's browser. Unless I missed an announcement somewhere, it doesn't seem like they're overly friendly about allowing web scrapers.
- citricsquid 14y ago
  They are fine with it as long as you abide to their terms, they have a subreddit dedicated to reddit development and the reddit api which has discussion of scraping: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev
- randomdrake 14y ago
  They just don't want to be abused. "We're happy to have API clients, crawlers, scrapers, and Greasemonkey scripts, but they have to obey some rules:" https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
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michael_fine 14y ago
Also, the hover effect is very distracting.

xpose2000 14y ago

Do you have any suggestions on fonts to use for readability? I was looking through Google Web Fonts and came up short.

nostromo 14y ago
I'd recommend changing some CSS on the H2 elements. You have line-height and font-size both set to 15px, which gives the multi-line H2s no room to breath. I'd also ditch Open-Sans for Helvetica-Neue, which is more readable, remove font-weight:bold (it's too much bold on the page), and tweak the margins. Before: http://i.imgur.com/vaf7U.png http://i.imgur.com/vaf7U.png After: http://i.imgur.com/a8bHS.png http://i.imgur.com/a8bHS.png
- xpose2000 14y ago
  Thanks a lot for those suggestions! That looks fantastic. I actually tried to get a designer on board to help with the front-end, but unfortunately he wasn't able to help out. So I did the best I could. :) I will definitely implement these font changes. :)
  - nostromo 14y ago
    radsauce :)
  - scottmey 14y ago
    This is great, it's been a minute since i've read any IAMA's and I just devoured about ten of them this morning...
- redthrowaway 14y ago
  That looks really slick. Nice job.

twistedanimator 14y ago

A couple months ago, reddit started refusing requests from my web scraper. Figured out they started checking the user agent and refusing connections that didn't look like they came from a user's browser. Unless I missed an announcement somewhere, it doesn't seem like they're overly friendly about allowing web scrapers.

citricsquid 14y ago
They are fine with it as long as you abide to their terms, they have a subreddit dedicated to reddit development and the reddit api which has discussion of scraping: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev
randomdrake 14y ago
They just don't want to be abused. "We're happy to have API clients, crawlers, scrapers, and Greasemonkey scripts, but they have to obey some rules:" https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/API
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michael_fine 14y ago

Also, the hover effect is very distracting.