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Comment by hinkley | Hacker News Reader

My eyes are bleeding. Reader mode to the rescue.

Always easier to see someone else's problems than our own, I suppose.

In case anyone thinks this is just snark, it's not. The font shadow legitimately hurts my eyes and I am unable to read this article.

And aside from one <svg> block and one <table> block, all the tags are either <div>s or <spans>s. That's ... impressive.

Font shadow misuse and multiple saturated colors are the most common ways to make something painful to look at. Tiny fonts too.

This one used shadows and flirts with too much saturated color.

That's because your eyes think it's out of focus so the muscles get tired.

It's pretty terrible. Plz no text shadow.

Font shadow? All the article text looks normal. Only the headings have a pink shadow.

I’m on iOS for what it’s worth.

no, the font does have a very subtle shadow. you can see it better when you highlight the text, at least on FF on linux

idk, I think the site's design is kind of endearing even if it isn't super ergonomic. Maybe I'm just old and nostalgic for the wild west creativity of the early web before everyone slapped bootstrap on wordpress or whatever and started looking the same. :)

'endearing' is about right. It's programmer art - the kind of stylesheet someone puts together to demonstrate all the features of their CSS engine, without concern as to its suitability to any particular visual purpose.

There are themes you can change (bottom of page), but I don't think any of them significantly improve it. Worse still, everything is stuffed into <div> elements and it also makes Firefox's "No Style" mode basically useless.

Not only did the author get way too clever with CSS effects, but couldn't even be bothered to use semantic HTML so it could degrade nicely.

I think they're going for something like https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/

It looks fine to me. (windows, edge)

My goodness, yah, shadows on -everything- I thought it was just my eyes, and "ok, I gotta get off the computer", at least I wasn't the only one!

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