The background noise is a subtle detail I would have never noticed on my own, but it does subconsciously make the blog appeal to me. Content in front of something that looks like real paper appears more credible than the same content on a flat background.
A new blog for 2024
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#13The background noise is a subtle detail I would have never noticed on my own, but it does subconsciously make the blog appeal to me. Content in front of something that looks like real paper appears more credible than the same content on a flat background.
I agree! Any tips on how to implement it?
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#14The background noise is a subtle detail I would have never noticed on my own, but it does subconsciously make the blog appeal to me. Content in front of something that looks like real paper appears more credible than the same content on a flat background.
It dramatically reduces readability for me.
Not a fan, even though it might look “nice”.
(As viewed on an iPhone)
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#15This is lovely. The whole thing.
I may have to revive my own blog now...
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#16The background noise is a subtle detail I would have never noticed on my own, but it does subconsciously make the blog appeal to me. Content in front of something that looks like real paper appears more credible than the same content on a flat background.
True. Designer I worked with believes the eyes focus easier on text if there is a small amount of low contrast fuzz surrounding it. I don't know if that is based on science but it seems plausible at least on white backgrounds.
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#17The author and I look at this very differently. He aimed to have his blog up in five days.
Last time I created a blog I aimed to have it up that day.
IMO the text is more important than the HTML and CSS
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#18would love you to publish open-source as nextra.site blog theme is not cutting it in terms of customizations. Would be great to fork it and write from IDE
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#19The catalyst ui would be really useful WITHOUT react.
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#20Maybe this will show all the React/Next.js/Server components haters that you can use them to very quickly build pages that are very performant (though used stack isn't that important anyway, the result depends more on the user's effort and attention to details).