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olejorgenb | on: We should be more ambitious with the software we build
I also appreciate a minimalistic design, but it's universally agreed that limiting text to certain length improve readability. Yes, I can turn on firefox reader mode to fix it - and it will work well since the site itself is very simple. I can only assume that is the site-owner stance? But that's an extra click and I'm quite sure it would work well if the page itself did the minimal of centering and limiting the line length. (for those that prefer to read with read-mode like systems)
yipinwong | parent | next
Even HN sucks so bad, I created my own CSS to use with Stylus plugin.

I don't want to spend even tiniest amount of time for CSS or spend few cents with AI for it either.

This is similar to badly designed sites make you click more than once to get a job done while once click is enough. (as It'd force me to style around his crappy site)

philipwhiuk | parent
My problem is the opposite and there's no reader mode that turns off site design with about 8 words a line. Usually I have to delve into the markup to disable the right style.

"Universal acceptance" seems remarkably citation-free. AI cites back to Baymard which doesn't provide any actual published research article indicating the results.

olejorgenb | root | parent
> there's no reader mode that turns off site design with about 8 words a line

Firefox's reader mode allow you to set the line length. If the reader-mode is able to understand the page it should be able to increase the length as well?

> "Universal acceptance"

Looking into it bit more I concede there's no real research consensus for optimal range in the 50-100 character range. I could not find research for the 180 char length this site render on my laptop screen at reasonable font size.

(Research indicate that bigger line spacing is beneficial for long lines though.)