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It'd be hard to argue that it ISN'T "readable." Maybe some would think it's ugly (I don't), but objectively speaking it's ticking every "readability" box.

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On mobile it's very difficult to read because the font is too small and line width is too long, so I have to choose between squinting or scrolling back and forth and back and forth and.. (or use Firefox's reader mode). I don't mind plain text, but this site is several orders of magnitude harder to read than http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

Woah really? It rendered just like motherfuckingwebsite for me on mobile.

edit: I was using readermode lol. The site does not look good at all on mobile.

On mobile it's really easy for me to read. Don't is at a natural size and lines wrap appropriately.

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Oh I see it looks bad in Firefox on mobile. Fair enough.

It's pretty uncomfortable to read on desktop, too - at least on my large monitor - since there are no margins.

I do most of my HN browsing in the app [Materialistic], so I usually first look at articles using the built-in webview, then open externally in Firefox if that doesn't render correctly (which is unfortunately common. Not sure why, but I'm inclined to blame either the app or webview; for example, Wikipedia is served as a static site but renders as a blank page). In this case, they both rendered the same way (but was able to read the page with FF's reader mode).

[Materialistic]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...

I'll admit my comment was snarky, but I'll say it has hard for me to read. I cant say exactly why, but I do have a knee-jerk reaction

Legible might be a better word? The giant, viewport spanning, line-width mixed with dense line-height makes it harder on eye for some people, myself included.

The lines are too long. It's not very readable.

I broke the lines up some, but tech discussions aren't going to be TV dialog, it's not healthy that way! :)

The point is that there is no margins. On my screen the lines are 275 characters long! This is 2-4x more standard formats. You don't need to break the lines up, you need to wrap them sooner with styling.

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