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by evmar 5446 days ago
It's clear whoever put this together put a lot of effort into making the page fancy and there are some nice effects there, but it ultimately harms the message.

Here is some concrete feedback:

- WebKit lets you make custom scrollbars if that's important to you: http://www.webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/ . Using a real scrollbar means that shortcuts I'm familiar with (e.g. shift-space to page up -- wow, I had no idea how frequently I used this until this page broke it) won't break.

- Whitespace is nice, but the double-spaced-feeling line-height combined with the "back to founders fund" heading at the top combine to make it feel uncomfortably cramped vertically -- not enough information density per page.

- Similarly, the lines are so wide they are uncomfortable to read. (I actually use a user stylesheet that limits lines to 50em, which makes many sites including HN more readable.)

I'm sorry I don't have any feedback on the content, I was too distracted to start reading it yet.

1 comments

And then there's the fact that it requires javascript to just display some simple text.