[throwaway2245]

> Personally I think the extra space does improve readability.

In the way that I read, I find that two spaces here highlights the first word(s) of the sentence, and that makes it much slower for me to parse the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

"I've written before about", "This", "This", "It's why I thought", "I", "When I found" - usually I want to skip over these words and get to the meaning: not have them be identified as a point of focus.

[cecilpl2]

I find it allows my eyes to easily find the beginning of the next sentence which allows me to read faster, since I can scan information in sentence-long chunks, then pause briefly to process the meaning before scanning the next sentence.

[dredmorbius]

I'd toyed with CSS first-child, first-line, and first-letter classesva ways back ... and foud that especially for '"cards-type" formats, these made finding and distinguishing new posts far clearer.

The style is (largely) incorporated in https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius. An ello example with screenshots; https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/QGKKdiuqUw6O7ROl-V3uJA