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I don't think your post was critical of the design, but I wanted to offer some perspective.

What I like about sites like this, is that I can adjust them to my needs using a tool I have full control over. The browser allows me to:

* Adjust window size or detach tab and resize

* Use zoom judiciously

* Use my preferred browser reading font

Sure, it may not be beautiful, but is surely is functional. I'll also leave this here: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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The page is very beautiful in its versatility. No fancy JS hacks to keep pages style: you can use Firefox' reader view for instance. I keep my browser windows around 1000x1000 pixels because the vast majority of sites would otherwise style me overlength lines of text.

And it's fine, as long they scale properly and allow narrow browser views. The only criminals are the ones that force wide paragraphs... sometimes to a point I have to vertically scroll a paragraph.

I completely agree. The advantages of sites like these is that just 3 lines of code is enough to tweak it to my preferences. I doubt it would be so simple for sites with mountains of existing CSS.

It's also worth noting that Firefox's "reader" mode works perfectly with this site.

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/pen/KpMqqB

http://thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.com

This one wins, but its address reminded me of this one:

https://thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.co/

which also has valid points to make.

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