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I dunno. I agree that readability is important, but I love the impact that creative design can have on the reader too. The pictures in this story, and creative design decisions like draping the whole thing in shades of black (echoing the blackness of coal and the polluted industrial sky) highlight the story's horror.

There's room for both approaches; print magazines have long ranged from those with utilitarian layouts to those with lavish, creative layouts, after all. So there's no reason to assume the Web can't be the same.

I think this is the worst design I've ever seen, with the background image zooming out as I scroll. Extremely distracting.

If you make the browser window narrow enough the background images are disabled and it becomes readable.

mobile layout is less cinematographic btw, pretty much like a normal blog layout

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739

When one paints the bike shed hot pink with pea-green accents and puts the bike rack itself on the roof, some discussion of it is to be expected.

It was nice on my phone