Hacker News Reader

Comment by mattdeboard | Hacker News Reader

When I'm reading blogs and stuff at work, I generally like to scroll down enough to hide the headline or site banner so it's not EXTREMELY obvious that I'm perusing HN or Prismatic. No one cares per se, just a thing of mine.

Doing that is impossible when no matter how far I scroll down your profile picture is stuck in the upper left corner of my screen.

View on HN

"Doing that is impossible when no matter how far I scroll down your profile picture is stuck in the upper left corner of my screen."

An irritating feature displayed on many of the blogs which feature regularly on HN... (I'm looking at you Zach Holman... because your picture floats there) :)

Readability Redux plugin (chrome) helps with this. Or you can read in a console-based browser (w3m works well, screen or elinks* variants).

But, yeah.

I'm finding increasingly site design for content-based sites gets in the way of content. G+ is among the worse offenders in this regard (particularly as various plug-ins to fix this keep breaking themselves). I tend to browse it with the Developer Tools element inspector open, deleting the stuff that bugs me most.

It's funny, I wanted to say exactly the same. I would add that this picture staying here while scrolling distracts me from focusing on the text to read which is quiet ironic considering the subject of the post :-)

This is OT, but this one hits close to home. My solution: I use "Decreased Productivity" plugin in Chrome. This might be an overkill for this page, but might be handy on others.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com