Website Readability Complaints

I wish websites like this had a "cut the bullshit" option so I could just read. I mean yes, it's pretty and lovely but I don't always want to feel like I'm on a "choose your own adventure" when reading something.I mean it's beautifully presented, but why does it need to be so graphical?(Thankfully in Firefox I can click the Reader view and it provides that)

This site is literally so hard to read. Are you going for page views or relevant content?

About 15% of the page is available for the actual content. The rest is distracting clutter (eg. the share bar thing repeated over and over again after every sentence almost) or just void.You have to scroll like crazy to read a very small amount of textThe text overall is extremely long and skinny, like a receipt, thats a highly suboptimal aspect ratio.Comments are formatted exactly the same as the article, the article doesnt seem to end properly just morphs directly into comments.Sin

are we reading the same article??!?!the content is quite good but the layout, colour, animations etc. are a mess.

I liked the red text. It's a very well designed layout, and the color choice - while arguably questionable - gives it personality. Not every site needs to look the same.The fact that it has a lot of upvotes shows that aparently many people don't have issues with the presentation.Anyway, my browser has a "reader" mode that lets me make any website readable with a single click, so I've stopped complaining about hard-to-read aticles. Better to focus on the substance o

Thanks!I hate the modern design where there is one large picture at the top, and you scroll down to read the article. At some point, when scrolling down while reading, the article will randomly jump down a page or two, and I have to scroll back and find the place I was at.I presume there is a purpose to this random jump, as I see it on site after site, but I cannot divine what it might be.One of the reasons I like hackernews is its complete lack of artifice and trendy design.My prese

The content here is interesting, but I don't like the way the information is displayed. Most of the time when I read HN I skim the articles I'm interested since it's not worth my time to dive into all the details. This layout makes it pretty difficult to do that efficiently.

I'm not saying this to be ironic on purpose, but the design of this website makes it very hard for me to read.- Oversized font which means I can't skim the article- Sliding columns for seemingly no reason other than to confuse the reader (Also makes it impossible to skim the article)- Really unintuitive navigation system (Click on a part of the paragraph) that I didn't find until I randomly hovered my mouse over itI didn't read the article, the design and layout a

I stopped halfway through your presentation, even though I am a Zoom-objector so I thought I would be the perfect audience for this kind of content. Here's a recent hackernews-frontpage blog post which relied heavily on images, but I found it less onerous to read:It's the old fashioned way I'm afraid (longform single page, vertical scrolling, visible proportional scrollbar), perhaps I'm just old.<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551983" rel=

I wish every web would offer this. Its so nice to read when you dont have to deal with everything around it