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Comment by Spooky23 | Hacker News Reader

In defense of those people, the layout of the site is actively hostile to people on mobile.

-10x for readability.

I'm sorry, for the kind of things I tend to blog about, monospace font was the simplest way to have a truly what-I-write-is-what-appears without using any markup. If I could start from scratch I would use MarkDown, however at this point if I switch all the past blog posts will be broken, or I should switch conditionally from a post ID >= but then the blog will be a bit inconsistent. I'll try to figure out a solution.

Dan Luu's website is an example of a blog with extremely simple markup that's very readable on mobile and desktop.

You could make it so new posts have markdown, but your old ones are untouched?

Honestly, your site is probably the very hard to read, but some of the problems it has are just omissions on your part If you want to see how to make monospaced fonts readable in bulk, pattern your layouts after phrack.

Great, I'll check the Phrack site. Thanks!

I'm on a phablet and it was easy to read. (Also liked it and have questions)

As a quick fix, would changing width: 800px to max-width: 800px for #content help in CSS?

Personally it wasn't the font for me but the way it wraps. I have some annoying vision issues that pop up from time to time. My solution is to use Safari reading mode on iOS, but that made it worse in this case.

The site's layout and typography is actively hostile to readers in general, mobile or no. The choice of a monospaced font in spite of all readability, the letter spacing, the lack of headings, list marking or indentation, the extremely wide lines...

It's a design anti-pattern that makes the article difficult to read, even if you don't have a cognitive differences that make reading more challenging.

I thought you were exaggerating but you are right. It is hard to read. At least the text is visible (not gray on light gray) so that is a positive.

Not true, I just read it on my 5" Android phone and it was pretty okay to read. I won't call it hostile at least.

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