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by Beowolve 3513 days ago
Says a website with hover share buttons and distracting color choices. I had trouble focusing on mobile because this site had so much going on.
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I hate that stupid stuff-animates-as-you-scroll crap that's been all over the web in the last few years. If I'm on a web page it's because I think it has information that I might need, not because I want to admire artistic fades and be drip-fed single lines of text.
Exactly what I wanted to say. At one point I almost thought that this was a copy-paste job from some other, more clearer site.
It is. There is the link on the end of article: https://blog.prototypr.io/design-principles-for-reducing-cog...
Fair points, though removing the fixed header, setting font to solid black, and a darker-blue link choice would help.

As things go these days, it's not so bad. The bar is set very low however.

There should be a strong hint to web devs that just about every browser out there comes with a easy to reach reading mode these days...
I've proposed the Fine Young Western Dinosaurs (FYWD) web browser: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/ubkidr7yuc7azg9hdnl7lq