Ask HN: Light grey text is killing my eyes.

Post by babo » Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 5:50 PM UTC

Post by Retric » Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 6:01 PM UTC

kennyroo wrote: post #6

Light gray text is a DTD (designer-transmitted disease) that's rapidly infecting sites across the Internet. (When it's really light, I use Firebug to modify the CSS.)

Post by fred » Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 6:24 PM UTC

Post by mattmcknight » Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 6:29 PM UTC

zepolen wrote: post #4

alabut wrote: post #3

I haven't seen a rationale for it yet but I'd guess that it's a subtle way of encouraging descriptions to be short (like the one you just wrote), it's probably intentional that it's hard to read long rambling posts like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468139 I read a pg comment somewhere that makes me think that's his design decision - he already weighs "Ask HN" type of posts differently than the standard one wit…

That was in fact the post that triggered this one. I gave up reading it after the second paragraph. However it was mainly because I wasn't interested in the topic, but had checked all the other articles out. There are some long self posts that are genuinely interesting to read and it still hurts my eyes to read them.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 05, 2009, 6:49 PM UTC