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Tonsky blog post HN comment boilerplates:

- He writes about UX but there's no dark mode!

- The cursors are really distracting!

- The yellow background color makes it unreadable!

- Some comment about the actual content of the post

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Moving pointers mean most people (including me) will never read the actual content, so we might as well discuss why someone would choose to alienate their potential audience in this manner.

Sometimes alienating can be intentional.

Sure, but isn't that called trolling? Shouldn't trolls be blocked by default?

Appealing to different tastes is far from trolling.

If he's targeting a niche, I'd love to know the customer profile. Maybe he can find a group of people who want to read books in Figma

Some people also just want to have fun on the internet, remember Myspace, Tumblr etc? These sites were hardly functional, inclusive or accessible but they sure were fun.

That seems a stretch to say most people won’t read the content because of this. Some for sure. But most?

I think it’s designed to shoo away HN middlebrow dismissalists such as yourself.

Well to be fair the cursors _really_ are distracting, what do you expect

That dark mode is hilarious

It's the UX incarnation of a dad joke.

Do you know Nikita? He likes to provoke and manipulate the audience.

Check the today's twin post on the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40772955

Comments are 100% on the point, both bland and boring.

Only in a way that we are in the same website business for a while: https://grumpy.website and https://annoying.technology

Hi :)

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