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Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by djdjdjd »

prennert wrote: post #82

I went back reading a printed newspaper a few months back and the speed in which I get my news now is astonishing. It feels like the web is not made to update oneself on news efficiently. To skim and zoom in and out of articles. I think part is the display format, part is the organization. A physical newspaper has a very predictable structure and does not change while you are reading it. (I.e. no need to come back to…

It's so much slower then using a rss reader and swiping through thought.

I have seen plenty of people struggling when reading relatively large newspaper. Most of them are.

And then I also need to wash my hands afterwords

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by baylessj »

djdjdjd wrote: post #121
prennert wrote: post #82

I went back reading a printed newspaper a few months back and the speed in which I get my news now is astonishing. It feels like the web is not made to update oneself on news efficiently. To skim and zoom in and out of articles. I think part is the display format, part is the organization. A physical newspaper has a very predictable structure and does not change while you are reading it. (I.e. no need to come back to…

It's so much slower then using a rss reader and swiping through thought. I have seen plenty of people struggling when reading relatively large newspaper. Most of them are. And then I also need to wash my hands afterwords

The ink on one's hands after reading the newspaper is the best part! Obviously an inconvenience, but it does bring a bit of nostalgia for me.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by sebiche »

donohoe wrote: post #16

People built things like this 10+ years ago and they were awful, and ridiculed by people in places like HN etc. This format looks good on paper, but on screens its a mess and poorly formatted one at that. Can we stop re-inventing bad UX all over again?

I would much rather see someone experimenting than see the same Bootstrap-like landing page over and over again.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by paulgerhardt »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #38

It’s very interesting from a psychological standpoint: the current front page headline (for me?) is “Planets and dwarf planets to scale in size, rotation speed, axial tilt and oblateness (numbered in distance order from Sun)” If I were reading this on /r/dataisbeautiful, I’d immediately parse and grok the headline just fine. But with this, my mindset was on the reporting of actions or events and I read “to scale” as…

Headlines have their own grammar (and sometimes even vocabulary) not found in other forms of English. It is a quite common module in advanced English lessons for ESL students. I’m sure a motivated individual could translate the reddit titles to “headlinese”[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

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Post by ComputerGuru »

tomjen3 wrote: post #99
ComputerGuru wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s really sad how much typesetting and font rendering has taken a backseat since the 80s and 90s. It seems like just yesterday the race was about finding the optimal algorithms for typesetting text to avoid rivers, have aesthetically pleasing ragged or justified text, tweak word breaking heuristics to avoid local optima that give poor overall results, etc and coming up with fonts that were hand-hinted and carefully…

That is _only_ an issue on the web. Any half decent typesetting program should have no issues at all doing it right. And even then it is getting better, the modern CSS can do things Word can't (notably all small caps and old style figures).

> That is only an issue on the web

After championing it and spending 13 years adding it to the OS and getting it supported everywhere, Microsoft removed ClearType subpixel rendering from Windows 8’s UI framework for those same reasons, went on to ship Windows 10 without it, and only went back on that decision with the Creator’s Update and are still working to correct that mistake and its fallout.

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