I also agree. There is too much white color, the readability is not very good.
I was exited about it as i already mentionned here that there is room for improvment of HN.
i'll uninstall it now. looking forward to try a corrected version.
Everywhere. The text is black on grey. Of all the sites I visit regularly, HN has the worst reading contrast.
And that's not even mentioning the ridiculously small font size of 10pt, and the hardcoded font families (Verdana, Geneva) that can cause poor text rendering (should be "system-ui" instead for best display quality on all platforms).
100%. I can barely read it. Perhaps changing the background of the text to red and green (and the text to white) would improve its legibility. There are likely better ideas, though!
My point too, the text is very unreadable. On the homepage they have the green background and white text with some effects, you barely can read it before your eyes start to hurt.
For me that wasn't even the worst part. What is the contrast ratio here? Looks light light-grey on off-white or something. I mean, ok, "they" say: 'Don't use black text on white background'. But "they" also say: 'Being able to actually see the text helps readability'.
And are those chapters available as single-page links -- or just in that cramped div/iframe with scrollbars?
I know this is harsh, but after seeing quite a few designs on the front page of hn, this has the prize for detracting from the user experience.
I find it really hard to read. The white background for starters, but also the lack of indentation which makes it hard to pick one post from the others. Colors too look wrong to me, plus alternating between them makes things even less readable; look at how the HN page makes it so easy to look at the post title by placing it just right of the post number (with the lower line indented for more convenience) and uses black to make it immediately recognizable.
That web page's color choices have made it very difficult to read. I don't know who thought putting light grey text on white was a good idea. I had to copy and paste the text to a text editor in order to read it.
Please roll back to the font family, size and color of the existing version. Small, thin, light grey on a white background is not even a little bit readable. It's roughly equivalent to the "dead", greyed out comments here on HN proper in terms of pain.
Given that you probably intend for people to want to read the text you present, I bet that's not the experience you're going for.
I actually have trouble reading the text on that page but not on HN. When you have actually bad eyesight you can easily "see" what works and what doesn't and that page is bad.
i'll uninstall it now. looking forward to try a corrected version.
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