Nice work, compliments. I also like the UI, no clutter or heavy JS. But I suggest you add a little noscript message saying this only functions with it enabled.
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#12Nice work, compliments. I also like the UI, no clutter or heavy JS. But I suggest you add a little noscript message saying this only functions with it enabled.
That's a great idea, thank you. A little ashamed I overlooked it, actually :/ It'll be thrown in with my other to-do's for the day.
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#13Regarding the UI, personally, I would shrink things down a notch. It feels a bit "in your face" right now, if that makes sense. Besides that - love it!
Edit: even just changing font-size from 14pt to 11pt is much better imho.
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#14Regarding the UI, personally, I would shrink things down a notch. It feels a bit "in your face" right now, if that makes sense. Besides that - love it! Edit: even just changing font-size from 14pt to 11pt is much better imho.
Hi, eric. Thanks for the feedback. If you don't mind me asking, do you think it feels that way because of the color choices, spacing, order of content, or something else? The colors are tied to specific themes, which can be changed by registered users -- but I can still tweak the default theme if it would improve things.
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#15I don't have a comment on the work itself, but like most sites, it has no awareness of line length, and it's therefore painful to parse the information without resizing the window.
Both HN, and the linked website, could benefit greatly in readability by simply limiting line-length to ~32em for textual information. It's strange that a browser, designed for human use, has no notion of humans in that regard.
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#16Nice work, compliments. I also like the UI, no clutter or heavy JS. But I suggest you add a little noscript message saying this only functions with it enabled.
That's a great idea, thank you. A little ashamed I overlooked it, actually :/ It'll be thrown in with my other to-do's for the day.
No problem, even the no-js users overlook it, including myself...
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#17I don't have a comment on the work itself, but like most sites, it has no awareness of line length, and it's therefore painful to parse the information without resizing the window. Both HN, and the linked website, could benefit greatly in readability by simply limiting line-length to ~32em for textual information. It's strange that a browser, designed for human use, has no notion of humans in that regard.
Hi, xjay. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I'll experiment with it later on today. If you don't mind me asking, do you have a reference site I can look at that you think really shines in terms of readability?
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#18I don't have a comment on the work itself, but like most sites, it has no awareness of line length, and it's therefore painful to parse the information without resizing the window. Both HN, and the linked website, could benefit greatly in readability by simply limiting line-length to ~32em for textual information. It's strange that a browser, designed for human use, has no notion of humans in that regard.
Hi, xjay. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I'll experiment with it later on today. If you don't mind me asking, do you have a reference site I can look at that you think really shines in terms of readability?
Sure! Matthew Butterick opened my eyes on the world of typography. He has a site with tips:
http://practicaltypography.com/
He also has a very good talk called "Typography for Docs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J6HuvosP0s
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#19Regarding the UI, personally, I would shrink things down a notch. It feels a bit "in your face" right now, if that makes sense. Besides that - love it! Edit: even just changing font-size from 14pt to 11pt is much better imho.
Hi, eric. Thanks for the feedback. If you don't mind me asking, do you think it feels that way because of the color choices, spacing, order of content, or something else? The colors are tied to specific themes, which can be changed by registered users -- but I can still tweak the default theme if it would improve things.
(not eric, but had the same thought)
Everything just feels way oversized, in a Fisher-Price kind of way. The font, the colors and "chunky"-ness of the UI.
The full-width content-area doesn't help either. The whole page gets right up in your face and shouts the content at you.
Concrete suggestions:
- dial down the font size
- put some blank space in the left-right marigns of the page (responsive if possible).
- maybe choose a more passive shade of blue for the background.
EDIT: here's an example comparing your page with wikipedia http://recordit.co/Za7NuT8Hy7
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, xjay. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I'll experiment with it later on today. If you don't mind me asking, do you have a reference site I can look at that you think really shines in terms of readability?
Sure! Matthew Butterick opened my eyes on the world of typography. He has a site with tips: http://practicaltypography.com/ He also has a very good talk called "Typography for Docs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J6HuvosP0s
Those are perfect, thanks! After I'm doing fiddling with things later, do you mind if I solicit your feedback?