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by captainbrosset 1028 days ago
I'm the author of devtoolstips. What exactly makes it feel like a list of ads to you? I'd love to understand this more. I'm, by no mean, a designer, and I do this in my free time. But if there's something that would make it look less marketing-like, then I'd love to know and update the design. Thanks!
3 comments

It's too busy with too many elements trying to get the user's focus I think.

Small tips: Remove the underline from the title of the "tip" and increase the margin between the tips themselves by a small amount. Maybe adjust the background color of a tip as well.

Would make it look like this: https://i.imgur.com/m1WqTBU.png

I do not agree with the assessment, personally, that it looks like advertising. That said, on mobile, the images could be under the title rather than under the tags, and they could have the same width as the other elements.
The colours and text/image distribution remind me the low quality ads that appear at the bottom of some news places that simply it's a bunch of clickbait and penis enlargement ads