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Comment by gherkinnn | Hacker News Reader

At the risk of making an ad-hominem attack, I found this website unreadable.

Minimalism is fine. But there comes a point when there's so little, it is nothing. danluu.com is a bucket of sand facing an overbuilt cathedral.

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You can read the same content here: https://www.wave.com/en/blog/simple-architecture/

I set a user style in Stylus for danluu.com:

  body { font: 16px/1.6em sans-serif; max-width: 50em; margin: auto; }

Can even add it manually in the inspector if you want.

I do something similar, except it's the CSS from whatever of the 'Better Fucking Website' hits come up for me on search each time.

I do wish I didn't have to do that though.

I find it's a lot easier to add a simple CSS to an understyled website, than remove huge fixed banners, weird low-contrast thin fonts, etc. from overstyled websites.

Thanks for sharing. Personally I also add background-color: #edd1b0; for any site I plan on read more than five minutes. For me is more pleasant to read compared with than a white background.

Reader mode in your browser goes a long way, I think they all have it now

Thanks. In Chrome I had to enable reader mode in chrome://flags

Ah thanks. I use it on mobile and did a cursory look for it on Chrome last night without success.

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