Just to put in perspective, on a 1080p screen with no zooming the line length in a top level HN comment is ~200 characters including spaces. It's bearable becau

Just to put in perspective, on a 1080p screen with no zooming the line length in a top level HN comment is ~200 characters including spaces. It's bearable because the comments tend to have just a few lines and a tree structure to avoid the wall of text. The blog referenced in the article as "extremely, almost unreadably bad" clocks in at ~300 characters per line, with the classic wall of text appearance which makes it very tiring to read.