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Cannot take a project like this seriously in 2024 while looking like total garbage [1] on mobile.

[1] https://i.ibb.co/3RWgMGy/IMG-4197.jpg

You believe the interesting, valuable part is the three lines of CSS it will take to improve rendering on baby internet browsers? Not the part where they federated a Wiki-style system?

When meeting somebody for the first time, it's generally a good idea to comb your hair and put on clean clothes. First impressions matter, and since the effort to make a good one would've been a mere "three lines of CSS," the fact that the project didn't bother with that is kind of off-putting.

> the fact that the project didn't bother with that is kind of off-putting.

Didn't bother with that _yet_. Given the date on the front page, Ibis is apparently fresh out of the gates.

Clothing and styling also provides social signalling and filtering, to stay with your analogy. If this were my early-stage project, I would welcome a little friction to select towards the helpful, the imaginative and the invested. To improve the signal/noise ratio.

Maybe that's the case here. If it is, it seems to be working.

I believe that if I have a new project and I want people to read about it and get interested, I must support mobile browsers (which nowadays produce more than half of the global website traffic) - more so if not doing it like in my example means not being able to read a single line at all.

It's just basic accessibility what we're talking about here.

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