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Comment by WanderPanda | Hacker News Reader

Which can be claimed for their content but not for their UI

What's wrong with their UI? Using https://hackaday.com/2021/05/22/irc-will-never-die/ as an example

Seems the contrast is excellent and no obvious disturbing layout choices. Fairly traditional layout although I'm not a fan of the white on black as I sit in the sun a lot, but generally it seems quite good if you compare it with most random blogs out there.

There's a reason why nothing, but nothing, of any importance or popularity uses white text on a black background.

Ok, I'll bite. What's that reason? Because as long as the contrast is there, there is no obvious reason why using that color scheme would lead to less importance or popularity.

Because objective studies have repeatedly shown it's harder to read white text on a black screen, compared to the dark-on-light text that 99.9% of everything else on the planet uses.

It's a way of sending the message, "It's my site, not yours. I don't care if you don't find it legible. Everybody else is wrong, and I'm right."

On an iPhone 11 there is about 1cm of vertical space for the content a recurrent reader wants to see: The latest article. Used to be better a couple years ago. Also “From the blog” is not emphasizing that these are actually the most recent articles from the blog and not some random selection

What do you mean? The UI is fine. The better part of it happens to be the fact that they haven't messed with it.

Maybe parent is still salty about the UI change... several years ago.

I remember not being happy but that's no longer the case for me... but I also don't read it regularly.

What I'd miss most is if the hackaday.io project site were to go away. Makes documenting my projects very easy.

I just use their RSS feed, but the UI looks fine to me.

Don't mess with the UI please. It's simple like it should be.

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