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Sorry for the eye-strain; I switched it from #777 to #444 just now, so hopefully there's a marginal improvement. My scraper isn't currently set to get that dee

by ddod 14y ago

Sorry for the eye-strain; I switched it from #777 to #444 just now, so hopefully there's a marginal improvement. My scraper isn't currently set to get that deep, but the most upvoted per time period is a good idea that I'll look into.

cryptoz 14y ago
The site is still virtually unreadable for me. In case you're seeing something different, I'm at work on Windows 7 with Chrome. I wear glasses. I pretty much cannot read the smaller text. That is to say, I can do it, but it physically hurts a bit. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/h9wNl http://imgur.com/h9wNl
dangrossman 14y ago
It's worse than just contrast. The text is so thin, light, and small, that parts of the glyphs can't even be rendered. There are literally not enough pixels to draw the open area of the top half of an "e" in the usernames below the titles. http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png Part of it is Chrome's messed up subpixel antialiasing (for which I've had an open bug report since September when they broke it), part is just making text way too small for anything but a 30" Retina display, if that exists.
- ddod 14y ago
  I've upped all the sizes so hopefully it's a bit better now. I had only tested it on an old Macbook and a Nexus 7, where the original font, size, and color were all very readable to me. Thanks for the heads up.
  - username3 14y ago
    Still no good on Chrome. Remove Lato from body font.
    - CanSpice 14y ago
      Yes, oh god, yes, this. It looks perfect in Helvetica Neue.
    - vinhnx 14y ago
      Right! Just by removing "Lato" font in body {} and no more configuration, "Hevetica Neue" looks very nice to me.
  - cryptoz 14y ago
    No noticeable change (still cannot read it).
    - riffraff 14y ago
      fwiw, very hard for me too (I am astygmatic), at +1 zoom it's better
napoleond 14y ago
Is there a reason you're using a scraper instead of http://www.hnsearch.com/api http://www.hnsearch.com/api ?
cryptozeus 14y ago
pls change the contrast..its still very hard to read..I dont know how you have been reading it
mercuryrising 14y ago
Can you read this well? Is this just a fad that everyone is getting on, or is there a legitimate reason for having a gray background with a slightly darker gray text color? Short of that, cool site. It'd be nice to see how many comments are on a submission, and if clicking 'comments' didn't load a new tab.
shawndrost 14y ago
Are you scraping the site directly? Have you heard of the official api? http://www.hnsearch.com/api http://www.hnsearch.com/api

by ddod 14y ago

cryptoz 14y ago

The site is still virtually unreadable for me. In case you're seeing something different, I'm at work on Windows 7 with Chrome. I wear glasses. I pretty much cannot read the smaller text. That is to say, I can do it, but it physically hurts a bit. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/h9wNl http://imgur.com/h9wNl

dangrossman 14y ago

It's worse than just contrast. The text is so thin, light, and small, that parts of the glyphs can't even be rendered. There are literally not enough pixels to draw the open area of the top half of an "e" in the usernames below the titles. http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png Part of it is Chrome's messed up subpixel antialiasing (for which I've had an open bug report since September when they broke it), part is just making text way too small for anything but a 30" Retina display, if that exists.

ddod 14y ago
I've upped all the sizes so hopefully it's a bit better now. I had only tested it on an old Macbook and a Nexus 7, where the original font, size, and color were all very readable to me. Thanks for the heads up.
- username3 14y ago
  Still no good on Chrome. Remove Lato from body font.
  - CanSpice 14y ago
    Yes, oh god, yes, this. It looks perfect in Helvetica Neue.
  - vinhnx 14y ago
    Right! Just by removing "Lato" font in body {} and no more configuration, "Hevetica Neue" looks very nice to me.
- cryptoz 14y ago
  No noticeable change (still cannot read it).
  - riffraff 14y ago
    fwiw, very hard for me too (I am astygmatic), at +1 zoom it's better

napoleond 14y ago

Is there a reason you're using a scraper instead of http://www.hnsearch.com/api http://www.hnsearch.com/api ?

cryptozeus 14y ago

pls change the contrast..its still very hard to read..I dont know how you have been reading it

mercuryrising 14y ago

Can you read this well? Is this just a fad that everyone is getting on, or is there a legitimate reason for having a gray background with a slightly darker gray text color? Short of that, cool site. It'd be nice to see how many comments are on a submission, and if clicking 'comments' didn't load a new tab.

shawndrost 14y ago

Are you scraping the site directly? Have you heard of the official api? http://www.hnsearch.com/api http://www.hnsearch.com/api