[axitanull]

It just dawns to me that "complaining about the style or minor usability of the website" is a type of bike shedding that happens regularly in hacker news.

Instead of contributing to the discussion related to the post, it's easier to just go "the website sucks."

[ayhanfuat]

I don't think it is a minor annoyance. It is indeed very hard to read.

[axitanull]

So to continue our bikeshedding:

Hacker News has no shortage of resourceful people that can silently handle the issue by themselves (the first comment even said themselves that they could simply use Reader Mode!). But the main point of my reply is: look at the number of replies that focus on the style of the website, and compare that to the number of replies that focus on the point of the post/article.

[andai]

Font is small on my phone, but I can read it in landscape mode. Hey, I'll take it over the average news / blog site these days.

[shp0ngle]

It's even forbidden by HN rules... somewhere.

[twixfel]

And "stopped reading at X" (X usually being on the first line or last line, for added stupidity in either direction, and often over something completely marginal). I wonder if there is a list of template hacker news comments anywhere.

[seabass-labrax]

This might be close enough!

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

[kelnos]

Yes, it's incredibly annoying (and I'm contributing to the problem by participating in this meta discussion). My general policy is any time I see a post that does this (without saying anything else substantive), I downvote and flag. I usually reserve flagging for truly egregious examples of garbage, but I make an exception for this type of post.

And meanwhile instead of reading later comments and participating, I'm commenting on this dumb thread. Sigh.

Edit: wow, at the time of writing, there are only three comments on this post that's actually about the article itself, with the rest complaining about the page design. C'mon HN, do better.