alt Hacker NewsWow I love the design of this site. Really hit some right notes for me. If you’re going to talk about reviving the ”old web” on hn, please follow through and reach for the originality level of this. So many thoughtful details.
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I also admired this and for a moment thought "I should steal this person's style". Then I quickly realised I am not even close to capable of pulling a design like that off, on so many dimensions.
I guess that's why this person is a professional designer and I'm a person who's never worked on a product with a UI in his career!
It has broken scrolling, very irritating. Scroll to top doesn’t work at all and when I fiddle with the fake windows regular scrolling can’t decide if the fake window or the whole page should scroll.
Yep, it's lovely. I'd recommend people check out her art too:
It is truly an excellent design. Thus I am so grateful for the "Reader mode" in Safari that allowed me to actually read the article.