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Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by redisman »

hardwaregeek wrote: post #42

The overly curse happy programmer speak is so very stale. I'm not offended or anything but it's just not that great. It doesn't make the content more interesting. It doesn't make the author seem any cooler. It's just meh. It reminds me of Epic Meal Time; a facade of coolness based on cursing, alcohol and over the top food. I love that instead of this style we're getting a new generation of programmers who are genuine…

It’s so dated. Like early 2000s edgy Maddox et al. I still swear a lot but this “style” is obnoxious

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

#102

Post by u801e »

kuschku wrote: post #79
rkangel wrote: post #7

From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…

> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. Do you like 400 nits of #ffffff right into your eyeballs? No? Me neither. The alternative is absolute darkness with extremely bright text, which in turn makes it unreadable (if you have astigmatism as I do) and literally causes pain due to the high contrast. Nothing in nature has such an extreme contrast. The only reason anyone would ever use full contrast is if they have a shitty 6-bit…

> Nothing in nature has such an extreme contrast.

What about black text on white pages in an actual hardback book? But since you referred to nature, what about zebras?

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by RandallBrown »

RedShift1 wrote: post #69
RandallBrown wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. Because too much contrast can be jarring and distracting, making it harder to read. These kinds of things are subjective.

Is there any research that proves this?

My sample size of 1 is really all that's needed to answer the question of "Why do people do this?" That is assuming that I'm a person.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

#104

Post by [deleted] »

booleandilemma wrote: post #72
danShumway wrote: post #56

I want to hecking scream. The point of the original website in this chain was not that you couldn't do media queries, or that all of your designs had to be unstyled. It was a gosh-darned satire that showed that even if you did literally nothing , your website would still be responsive and readable and load fast. The fact that it did nothing, that it was just a completely unstyled HTML page was the reason that the jok…

This one has a dark theme though.

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Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

#105

Post by codydh »

UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #94
rkangel wrote: post #7

From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…

https://contrastrebellion.com/ More high-contrast options exist then Black foreground on a White background. I'm not disagreeing with your point, I loathe grey on grey sites. Being visually impaired nothing makes me rage-quit your site quicker if my DarkReader extension can't unfuck a site. I'm posting https://contrastrebellion.com/ so all the replies and followup conversations can see it too.

The scrolljacking on this site makes it literally unusable on my device.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

mr_cyborg wrote: post #20
progval wrote: post #8

> And did you let the browser choose the font? Don’t make me read such text with Times New Roman. I don't understand this attitude. If you don't like Times New Roman, why don't you change your browser's default font? What I don't like is when websites tell my browser to use a different font or different colors than the ones I configured. (Off-topic, but something that really annoys me is websites that make text in ve…

Serifs can be a good thing for readability! I don’t know that the creator’s choice to force sans-serif was ideal here.

I think ideally, your browser should have a default serif, sans-serif, and monospace font, and websites should default to using it. I think there are useful cases for each style, but we really need not download seven fonts every time we load a website.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by jschwartzi »

kuschku wrote: post #90
munchbunny wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yes I know the art theory stuff about never using black because it doesn't appear naturally. I think the underlying reasons for that are underappreciated. When you pick #000000 for your text color, people won't see it as pure black anyway. Imperfections in your screen's backlighting aside, your screen reflects the ambient lighting, or, if you're outdoors and pointed the wrong direction on a sunny day, your screen r…

On a good monitor, the color contrast between #ffffff and #000000 is far beyond the contrast possible in nature. No reflective material can reach those colors or that contrast. That color contrast is perfect for a game, a movie or an image. But you don't want the feeling of something as bright as looking into the fucking sun mixed with the darkness of the deepest starless night. That's just painful, both in light mod…

Yeah definitely. And also be sure to switch all your keys on your keyboard to a hardwood. I prefer mahogany for its bright clicks and depth of response versus the equivalent plastic keycaps.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by kstenerud »

rkangel wrote: post #7

From " http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ " which is one up the chain: > A little less contrast WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manua…

This is one of my biggest pet peeves of "modern" websites. I've installed github.com/Fushko/font-contrast, and I've noticed myself clicking it on more and more in recent times.

You don't need a pure white background, but for gods sake PLEASE stop making the text light grey! Having to squint to read a website is headache-inducing.

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by yobert »

u801e wrote: post #102
kuschku wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. Do you like 400 nits of #ffffff right into your eyeballs? No? Me neither. The alternative is absolute darkness with extremely bright text, which in turn makes it unreadable (if you have astigmatism as I do) and literally causes pain due to the high contrast. Nothing in nature has such an extreme contrast. The only reason anyone would ever use full contrast is if they have a shitty 6-bit…

> Nothing in nature has such an extreme contrast. What about black text on white pages in an actual hardback book? But since you referred to nature, what about zebras?

Isn't the general theory about zebra stripes is they are designed to confuse and nauseate predators? :D (Poking fun, with love)
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