[spacechild1]

It is obviously a joke (and a good one, I dare say). The fact that people seem to take it seriously says something about the contemporary state of webdesign :)

[mplewis]

It would be a better joke if there were an option to turn the joke off. As it is, dark mode doesn't exist and the pointers occlude text.

[spacechild1]

> It would be a better joke if there were an option to turn the joke off.

As others have pointed out, reader mode works as expected.

[toastercat]

1. Not every browser has reader mode

2. I don't think it's a very good joke to post long-form content on your blog with the expectation that it's basically unreadable without a reader mode.

> The fact that people seem to take it seriously says something about the contemporary state of webdesign :)

Mind expanding and what it says exactly about contemporary web design?

Whether I take it seriously or not doesn't change the fact that it's still damn hard to read anything.

[spacechild1]

> Mind expanding and what it says exactly about contemporary web design?

The same as when political satire is indistinguishable from actual politics. It means that the real things has sort of become a joke itself.

[toastercat]

I can agree that most modern web design is bad. I can also agree that the web design on tonsky's site is bad, but OK, I acknowledge that it is intentionally bad; so bad that it's unreadable. I had myself a chuckle now, and next time I see a link to tonsky's site, I'll click on it, chuckle, and immediately leave.

[tqwhite]

If you don't have reader mode, get a new browser. Don't tell him to make it boring for all the rest of us who behave normally.

[toastercat]

Boring and readable are not the same thing. Also, you can edit your comments on HackerNews

[tqwhite]

Also, I read it perfectly well and never thought about switching to reader. It made me laugh.