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I'd love to read this, but the faint text on white background... good god. I went through the code looking to change the background so I could read it and found this:

body { text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; }

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Huh. Did they change it? I see a very thin font in the header and in bulleted lists, but the rest of the text on the page is black (literally #000000) and relatively bold compared to what I'm used to seeing online (could just be that it's slightly larger, which is also good! it's by no means big, just nice to see something not pointlessly tiny).

The header has the awful "ObjektivMk1-Thin" font mentioned elsewhere, but for me the body is a normal "Roboto","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif font-family.

They did change it.

Came here to say this. Sent them a contact message hopefully they'll do some A/B testing and notice all the new attention they're getting.

If you are on an iPhone (maybe any Safari browser?) clicking on the top left reader button makes it legible.

if you untick [font-family: "ObjektivMk1-Thin"; */] it does the job.

Right? I just '* {font-family: Arial}'ed it and it made it a lot better.

You're a datapoint in the upcoming Science paper, "RCN is Much Better at Reading Our Announcements Concerning RCN Than Actual Humans."

lol

I wasn't sure why i cant focus on article until i've read this.

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