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Comment by jordanmorgan10 | Hacker News Reader

I love this content! I love his wisdom! But my goodness, it's like some of these websites go out of their way to not be readable at all.

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Given the "Close Form" text and the bullet list of social media icons, it looks like the CSS is failing to load.

Honest question: what was the problem?

The photographs? Photographs are almost always junk in an article, and this article was no exception, except it had the saving grace that this was his swan’s song,so why not (and there were merely three).

But it was a simple text layout for a short article. Personally I can’t complain. Hence I ask what I’m missing.

> Honest question: what was the problem?

> But it was a simple text layout for a short article. Personally I can’t complain. Hence I ask what I’m missing.

Just wanted to repeat this as I entirely agree. Sure, it’s bland, but like it’s extremely readable and of all the sites to rant about UX on, this wouldn’t even make my top 1M.

All in all, I find it to be pretty readable. Some bigger body margins would help a lot though.

If you read it on a computer the text floats out the whole window width.

I prefer that to pages that constrain the width and have junk on the sides. I can always adjust the window width for comfortable reading when the author kindly arranges the page that way.

Not his fault your terminal supports more than 80 character rows.

(If you got Firefox click the reader mode in the right of the URL bar).

(Tried Reader on Safari iPad; Wow!)

I thought it was refreshing to have no cause to wonder what was going on under the hood. I wish the rest of the web was like that.

It only looks that way because the link to its stylesheet is broken:

The `href` leads to a 404, hence the "refreshing" look...

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