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It's actually funny, the lack of styling actually makes consuming the info alot easier.

The page is objectively and substantially better in every aspect of legibility with CSS loaded.

Hey, take it easy! It's not nice to pick on those poor developers who can only read text that has been piped into their preferred TUI.

Yea, "Minimalism is better!" is like a reflex for some people

It often is. Turns out this page does fit the bill, CSS or not.

> objectively

I do not think that word means what you think it means

All art is a combination of objective and subjective aspects.

The objective improvements from css here include: shorter lines are easier to read (per multiple legibility studies), the styling distinguishes navigation and secondary site elements from the main content (without css you get a half screen of navigation links), and the visual importance of in-page anchor links is reduced.

I used it to mean that it's inarguably true and unrelated to opinion.

It is way more readable with CSS, I don't know what you're all on about.

The font is bigger, the lines are shorter, the navigation doesn't take half the page. The only thing worse would be the contrast but it's not that bad.

On mobile it's actually super readable and lines are a perfect length, and having to scroll past the top navigation doesn't affect readability much

The top navigation definitely put me off, I immediately came back without even scrolling down.

Funny if not tragic. I was impressed at how good the styling of the page was until I realized the css did not load.

Except I like to have some margin. And since I have a wide screen, the number of words per line is too large.

That is a weird take. Having a wide screen doesn't force you to maximize the window.

I don't know about most people but to me seeing bits of my desktop on the sides of the window I care about feels like visual noise. I like to have all my apps maximized but maybe is that just me ?

Hate seeing bits of your desktop showing? Try a tiling window manager, you might like it!

How having bit of your desktop showing on the sides any different than whatever background image or color a particular website decides to show on each side of the text?

I prefer having a quiet single color background and being able to dictate how wide is the text I am reading than being limited by the website owner's choice. But that is also maybe just me.

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