This is latest Chrome on iOS. That header banner is fixed (that's sub-optimal) and all the content is in that little box.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739
> A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren't sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing.
> I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.
This submission is a bit different because the design of the page is the thing being submitted, but I'm aware that I too easily make comments about the design of the page rather than the content of the page.
Some design choices are weird and prevent people from being able read the content and I wish there was a way to provide that feedback without derailing a thread.
I think the best solution would be thread folding (which I know is being worked on anyway) where the default is that all threads are collapsed. Then, off topic discussion wouldn't take up any more than a single post's worth of space by default. Having it be a conscious choice to move deeper into a thread also ensures that no one has to scroll past much content they don't care about.
But it taking more time would kind of be the point - opting in to participate rather than opting out by scrolling past content means fewer sarcastic comments about how a thread is off topic and irrelevant.
Whe someone writes an interesting technical post about Cache Line Aliasing it's a shame when the most visible commet is a complaint about the blog platform.
I want more articles like that on HN so I'm going to stop leaving empty comments about page design on HN unless, like this example, the design is an intrinsic part of the submission.
And even here I could have worded my post much better.
Having said all that: a lot of the stuff submitted here is not accessible and that's a shame. It feels like we've gone backwards. Where you used to have a web page that had keyboard navigable elements that would announce themselves to the assistive technology it feels like we now have apps that abandoned usability and started making it up as they go along. What happens when you press and hold and image? What happens when you put your phone into landscape? Who knows, everyone does things differently.
In regards to the 'experimentation' done by websites. I would say that this 'experimentation' is something that should happen. How else are we supposed to discover new and better ways of doing things than by trying something different. Not all new things are better, and most of them fail. This trial and error, however eventually leads to better design and better 'standard' ways of doing things.
It is unfortunate that today accessibility has fallen down the priority list. Likely, a side effect of all the new ways we can interact with our electronics. So above all let me say thank you! We need people like you who remind developers to keep accessibility a top priority.