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Comment by hellojere | Hacker News Reader

Unreadable design on the website, but a cool project.

Yeah, sorry, last time the CSS got updated was 2010... what specifically makes it 'unreadable' for you?

Since you're asking: on Firefox/Android the page rendered in the declared three column layout. Even after I manually zoomed in to make the center column fill the width of my screen, the text was very small.

Usually, I'd just use Firefox Reader View (aka Readability.js), but it's not being offered on the site. I don't know why, the document structure seems straightforward enough (IANA web dev).

Same trouble here, just adding a mobile-friendly meta tag would probably fix the issue.

Any pointers for that?

Sure, adding this verbatim should be enough:

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/responsive-meta-tag/

Oooh, I tried that, it does not make the experience better (at least in Fennec on my Android): the main column gets squeezed until it only shows one word at a time. I think I'd have to drag my websites CSS into the 21th century before I can use that.

Ah, that's too bad. You can use two CSS selectors to make the two columns go under then main one on small screens, though it's a bit more involved than I can remember off the top of my head.

The fact that one article is split to N pages, for one thing. I gave up on page 2.

There are only five pages (it shows you in the right pane). I had no problem with clicking "Next" but even if you dislike that I suggest you persist - it's a nice project, a well written article and worth reading.

It's a good point, though, and one I heard earlier. Spritesmods used multi-page articles from the beginning (which is nigh 14 years ago now), initially because, I dunno, more of the web was like that? Later, when I needed the money, it was because I liked header ads more than long articles with interstitial ads. Now I don't quite need the money anymore, maybe I should throw out ads and either default to everything-on-one-page or at least give that as an option.

Yes please. The less ad tech sprawled all over the internet, the better, and it sets a great example!

Worked the same for me. I actually like the css on the site, but I refuse to click through multi-page articles. Especially when I am not even informed about the total number of pages.

FWIW, Safari Reader Mode will automatically stitch together multiple pages

You can use the Tranquility addon [0] on Firefox to make it readable. It worked well for me.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tranquility-1...

I find sprite's content so enjoyable that I would still check on his website monthly even if it had www.tic.com design!

It works fine without JS, which is already far more readable than a lot of other sites.

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