What people are saying is that the web does look like shit, and your website is part of the problem.

Unfortunately for you, the web _is_ for everyone. It's for everyone on HN, it's for people with disabilities, it's for people who have a 32" desktop screen that don't need your shitty hamburger menu and giant font size, it's for people with color blindness, it's for people who want to read the content, not marvel at your silly squiggly lines.

Saying that "my design is not for everyone" in such a dismissive manner is deliberately showing the middle finger to everyone who is outside of your group and people are calling you out on that.

Your submission is objectively ironic, regardless of what YOU think.

I mean I get that it's your baby and you and whoever else worked on it are super into the style. I'm super not, but why do you care? You've got your statement to make. "That's just, like, your opinion, man, it's not for everybody" still comes off whiny, though.

That said, good call not breaking reader mode, so the less avant garde among us don't have to choose between bouncing and getting a headache. Super-saturated background for unsaturated text? Seriously? I mean, the luminance contrast is good and all, but Jesus. How is this not literally painful for you guys to look at on Apple displays? Even on a Dell it stings.

I came here looking for these comments, knowing the crowd.

Didn't expect to find you here though.

So just want to add - The Outline is one of the freshest aesthetics I've seen in a long time. I get it and I love it. Nice job.