Comment by anonymous908213
13 days ago
> Form should follow function, not the other way around.
According to whom? It's their personal website, they're allowed to place value on whatever they want.
13 days ago
> Form should follow function, not the other way around.
According to whom? It's their personal website, they're allowed to place value on whatever they want.
> According to whom? It's their personal website, they're allowed to place value on whatever they want.
It's a well-known design principle to not impede the intended function of things by giving them a form that distracts from it. Of course you can deviate from that, especially if you want to make a point of some sort.
However, I presume they publish their writings so they will be read by others. Making this hard will reduce their audience.
If they are making this trade-off willingly, good for them, I suppose. But maybe they're so smitten with the style that they do not realize how hard to read it is.
There's also a point at which the form gets so bad that it starts to disrespect the audience. Again, that can be on purpose, but it might be unintentional.
This being a personal blog, it's not unreasonable to expect that a main purpose of it is communication. I think it's warranted to draw attention to the fact that its design gets in the way of that goal, big time.
According to them. They shared their opinion.
No, they asserted their opinion as a fact.
There is a world of difference between "I prefer x" and criticising something while asserting "everyone should do x (because I prefer x)".
It's not normal to wrap all opinions in "I prefer". The average opinion statement looks superficially like a factual statement, without intent to actually claim it's a fact.
You're allowed to criticize something without engaging in social legalese.
One should not have to preface every single thing with "In my opinion" or some variant for you to realize that that's what they're talking about.
> No, they asserted their opinion as a fact.
Interesting idea, let's see if they confirm they were talking facts. I'll be very surprised.
I'm the worst person to take issue with this. This has been my biggest pet peeve for the longest time as well. Right until my frame of mind flipped randomly, and I recognized that by getting upset over blatantly subjective matters being discussed with zero cushioning like this, I'm doing little more than intentionally misreading the other person, and upsetting myself on purpose.
You're reacting to the smoke, not the fire. For example, this may have very well been a perfectly cromulent alternative reply:
> Sounds subjective, and indeed, I disagree. Not a fan of dogma like this anyhow.
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