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by eykanal 70 days ago
There's a great essay hiding in that page, but oh my goodness that is a frustrating format and layout.
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Sorry, I try to keep both camps in mind as I build these things. There's a text version linked at the top, but the link is here: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii
I found it neat to be given the choice. Both formats were good.
I saw it (I am not OC), though I think by pure accident.

There's seemingly appearing trend of ultra low contrast foreground to background (e.g. mid gray text on top of dark gray background), often combined with 1px borders and/or 1px thick fonts.

I constantly need to either zoom on such websites or crank up screen brightness to the max (or both) to be able to see anything (or even better, not visit such sites ever again).

That link you pointed out has:

- mid gray font: rgb(122, 125, 126)

- dark blue tint background: rgb(14, 21, 24)

- 1px border that is nearly invisible against background: rgb(37, 42, 44)

That link text has unacceptable contrast: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=7A7D7E&... , not to say the border: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=252A2C&... .

At least main text has passable grade: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=A89F91&...

A small plea to authors - if you absolutely must use scroll-linked animations and fade-ins, please at least make sure all the text is fully readable within 25% of the scroll height. It is so frustrating not being able to read things until they reach the middle of the page. Trying to look at images that aren't fully loaded until the top is already scrolling off the page! What's the point of having a 4k monitor if I can only use the top half!
Well, it's LLM generated for sure. I wouldn't call it great.
especially funny slop, given the author submitted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167020 months ago
Yep, trash.
Looked like a broken page until I happened to scroll (as that works with broken pages). Stopped and closed when I saw Apple crap.
prefers-reduced-motion == 1 quiets that nonsense in a lot of cases, but many sites don't respect it. I wish this gratuitous animation fad would just die already. It adds nothing.
I hope it's a fad, but I'm not feeling good about it. I think the only real solution is something browser level that doesn't rely on developers/their management respecting it. (Or well, a new name that doesn't include "prefers" or "reduced"...)

I really don't understand why people want intentional lag added to everything.

I find that it adds a lot.
It sure looks like the author likes webpages coming alive too!
I hate that fade-in stuff. Basically just close any page that does it.