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Comment by kraftman | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone else find this hard to read? Small grey type on a white background makes it look more like terms and conditions than an article.

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I clicked out as soon as that blue rectangle completely obscured my view of the page, which I was already struggling to read anyway (not just because of the contrast - it was a very listy article). Why do so many publishers think a popup is acceptable just because it's now called an interstitial, not a popup?

One my phone I thought it was tough to read. Now that I've opened it on my PC, it's practically impossible to read.

Yes, one of the sites I have to use an user css.

Otherwise painfully high number of failure points are true in the place I'm working, so a good article to show the management on the next scrum meeting (some point in the next two months) :)

Probably a dumb question but how do you apply your own css? With a browser plugin?

I have a bookmarklet, which I've shared here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/wKpewj (there are lots if you search bookmarklet + {something}). It makes the text 1em, not bold/thin, black on tan.

Something a bit better could preserve headings, bold words etc.

Firefox's Reader Mode sometimes works, although not on this site.

Thanks for sharing this. I'm not sure about Agile but the productivity boost from using this bookmarklet is real.

Very handy, thanks!

Yes, you can use plug-ins like Stylish. It works well for tweaking sites you read regularly, HN say, though personally I find it too much messing around for a site I'm just visiting quickly. I'm more likely to just open the developer tools in whichever browser I'm using and look for rules that set a tiny font-size, a font-weight of 300, a faded color, etc. Often just disabling a couple of those will make a page dramatically easier to read, so I do recommend spending five or ten minutes figuring out how it works in your preferred browser. Even then, I sometimes have to admit defeat. I hate the idea of criticising style rather than substance, but with a site as awful as this one you can spend several minutes trying to make it comfortable to read and still fail.

Dude, at least pretend to comment on the content and as a side note, comment on the form. How would you feel if someone commented that way on a matter you wrote about concerning an issue you consider important?

Have you never come across a site that looked so shitty, that you just left, thinking there could be nothing valuable there? This site is like that. And having to click through the popup, after first scanning it for the extremely non-obvious link, well that just makes the site sleazy. These things lend credibility or take it away.

The way in which you communicate your important issue is probably equally important.

I'd appreciate the feedback and I'd try and make it more comfortable to read.

Good, but giving feedback in an unrelated forum that the author probably doesn't read is not useful. The page has a "Leave A Comment" box. Give feedback there.

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