In Firefox, I didn't see a reader view available (I wonder what determines that), but I was able to right click, Inspect, change the <body bgcolor="#CCFF33" ...> background to #ffffff
Personally, I liked the design when zoomed in when combined with the rest of the page design. It reminds me of the 90s (Wired magazine, etc.). "Updated November 2000". That explains it.
The background is so green that when I go look at a website with white background afterwards, the white will appear like red because the cells for green in my retina have been depleted.
It's fast, legible, dense and ad-free. Can't get any better than this.
In their defense, this probably looked really cool in 2000, when this was published (or at least, last updated).
But agreed, that lime green is horrendous.
In Firefox, I didn't see a reader view available (I wonder what determines that), but I was able to right click, Inspect, change the <body bgcolor="#CCFF33" ...> background to #ffffff
Personally, I liked the design when zoomed in when combined with the rest of the page design. It reminds me of the 90s (Wired magazine, etc.). "Updated November 2000". That explains it.
The background is so green that when I go look at a website with white background afterwards, the white will appear like red because the cells for green in my retina have been depleted.
The view-source is like a portal to Year 2000.
Table-based layout, font tags, map/area tags. Only thing missing is an unnecessarily imported jQuery.
That would be pretty anachronistic; jQuery didn't come around until six years later.
Well since jQuery was 6 years in the future, it is understandable they didn’t use it.
On purely aesthetic grounds I'll take this over another substack-like site any day of the week.