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The lines are also pretty crammed, they could need some more padding. I easily find myself slipping a line while reading. And if gwern feels adventurous (and I

The lines are also pretty crammed, they could need some more padding. I easily find myself slipping a line while reading. And if gwern feels adventurous (and I guess he'd like testing such kind of things), he may try something like [1] to color the text with a gradient, to allow faster reading speeds. [1] http://www.beelinereader.com/ http://www.beelinereader.com/

gwern 13y ago
> The lines are also pretty crammed, they could need some more padding. As in line height? Already tried that: http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height > [1] http://www.beelinereader.com/ http://www.beelinereader.com/ I emailed them when they came out for a JS version which I could use. I guess they are still working on it because I haven't heard anything lately.
- pantalaimon 13y ago
  I think single-value changes won't make a big difference (as you've proven yourself), but did you look into something like [1]? But I have to admit, I hardly ever read your articles from top to bottom, but just skim through them, looking for paragraphs I find interesting. Your current design works well for that, most readability enhancing matters usually help reading the entire thing (like a story or an article in a magazine), but at the cost of the ability to quickly glance over it. [1] http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.gwern.net/AB%...
  - gwern 13y ago
    > I think single-value changes won't make a big difference (as you've proven yourself) But it can still help. A local optima is still higher than not being in the local optima. I haven't looked at Readability a lot. For a while, it wasn't displaying gwern.net pages at all... and it's still messing up a lot. Apparently the Readability view starts halfway down the page! /hits the report-bug button yet again.

gwern 13y ago

> The lines are also pretty crammed, they could need some more padding. As in line height? Already tried that: http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height > [1] http://www.beelinereader.com/ http://www.beelinereader.com/ I emailed them when they came out for a JS version which I could use. I guess they are still working on it because I haven't heard anything lately.

pantalaimon 13y ago
I think single-value changes won't make a big difference (as you've proven yourself), but did you look into something like [1]? But I have to admit, I hardly ever read your articles from top to bottom, but just skim through them, looking for paragraphs I find interesting. Your current design works well for that, most readability enhancing matters usually help reading the entire thing (like a story or an article in a magazine), but at the cost of the ability to quickly glance over it. [1] http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.gwern.net/AB%...
- gwern 13y ago
  > I think single-value changes won't make a big difference (as you've proven yourself) But it can still help. A local optima is still higher than not being in the local optima. I haven't looked at Readability a lot. For a while, it wasn't displaying gwern.net pages at all... and it's still messing up a lot. Apparently the Readability view starts halfway down the page! /hits the report-bug button yet again.