Hah, I prefer the hacker news version. The nyt one is kinda not appropriate.
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#22Unfortunately this doesn't make the quality of the reporting any better.
True, haha.
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#23Nice work. I was going to do something very similar and call it bettercrunch.com - you beat me to it.
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#24You can also filter posts by authors.
This is AWESOME :) Thank u.
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#25Any chances for Readability ? :)
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#26So basically it's all of TechCrunch's content with none of their ability to make money off it. This'll last long.
It'd be a sort of interesting legal issue if they got sued. Using the name 'tcfast' might be problematic. But what if it was a more general web-based RSS reader that reformatted any RSS feed into pages like this? If that's illegal, where's the line between that and Google Reader?
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
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Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#28There is a reason the majority of news sites (well, any good news site) limits the width of text; wide text is hard to read. Although the HN version that lists everything with just the title is great, but the actual post display is awful, even though it's supposed to be inheriting how HN displays posts it should still be limited :(
That's a common opinion, yes. Some users prefer to actually take advantage of their screen width to read more content at a time. It also proves particularly convenient when trying to skim for particular information without reading everything.
Part of the justification for using narrow columns relates to the difficulty of finding the starting point of the next line when your eyes jump a large distance to the left. That advice applies quite well to books, and much less well to more structured content. For instance, on Hacker News, most comments don't have a wall of text with no paragraph breaks, and comments have strong delineation, so a narrow text width doesn't actually help.
That said, if you have the type of content for which a narrow text width does help (which TechCrunch sometimes does), please don't limit it to a specific pixel width; please use em instead, so that the width gets larger with the font size. That way, when users hit Ctrl-+ to override a site's smaller-than-the-browser's-default font size, the site will show about the same amount of text on each line, rather than producing narrower lines as the font grows.
Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#29There is a reason the majority of news sites (well, any good news site) limits the width of text; wide text is hard to read. Although the HN version that lists everything with just the title is great, but the actual post display is awful, even though it's supposed to be inheriting how HN displays posts it should still be limited :(
i've limited it to 800px
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Re: Old TechCrunch + really fast, clean, customizable layouts
#30There is a reason the majority of news sites (well, any good news site) limits the width of text; wide text is hard to read. Although the HN version that lists everything with just the title is great, but the actual post display is awful, even though it's supposed to be inheriting how HN displays posts it should still be limited :(
That's a common opinion, yes. Some users prefer to actually take advantage of their screen width to read more content at a time. It also proves particularly convenient when trying to skim for particular information without reading everything. Part of the justification for using narrow columns relates to the difficulty of finding the starting point of the next line when your eyes jump a large distance to the left. Tha…
>That way, when users hit Ctrl-+ to override a site's smaller-than-the-browser's-default font size, the site will show about the same amount of text on each line, rather than producing narrower lines as the font grows.
That is stale 2008 advice. Every browser but ie6 uses zoom to resize pages. Text is resized on ctrl-+ regardless of px vs em. The days of sizing things with em's is long over, and these days it is counter-productive.