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Wow I love the design of this site. Really hit some right notes for me. If you’re going to talk about reviving the ”old web” on hn, please follow through and reach for the originality level of this. So many thoughtful details.
It is truly an excellent design. Thus I am so grateful for the "Reader mode" in Safari that allowed me to actually read the article.
No kidding! Half way down I began to get a headache. Took me a moment to understand that it was the difficult-to-read font that was inducing headache. Switched to "Reader mode" and instant relief!
Excellent design. But not for me. Thank you Reader mode!
I also admired this and for a moment thought "I should steal this person's style". Then I quickly realised I am not even close to capable of pulling a design like that off, on so many dimensions.
I guess that's why this person is a professional designer and I'm a person who's never worked on a product with a UI in his career!
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I hated it. It looks really pretty, but was terrible for reading. Half my phone screen was taken up by icons, and there was no scrollbar so I had no idea how long the article was. I really needed reader mode for it.
In the industry, we call this the "fuck off article design" (I gave up reading midway through the post.)
I originally read the article on desktop, but tried a mobile view:
https://i.imgur.com/Om4u0lW.png
Is it really "terrible for reading"?... I find this very comfortable, to the contrary...
Click the Maximize Window button on the top right.
Wow, thanks for the tip. I didn't expect to need a manual to read a blog post.
No manual required. You just have to recognize very common icons.
Hey, that's what reader mode is for
Yep, it's lovely. I'd recommend people check out her art too:
It has broken scrolling, very irritating. Scroll to top doesn’t work at all and when I fiddle with the fake windows regular scrolling can’t decide if the fake window or the whole page should scroll.
I didn't like the default font but good thing they have a way to change it
Real talk, it's the first site I'm going to forward to people because of its design and implementation in at least 15 years. This is remarkable work.
I love it too!!