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    1. …in reply to @can
      can jbenton I enjoy experimentation but my question is... what is the point? What motivates it? Design for the sake of design is pointless unless it accomplishes *something* and I don't understand what the motivation is here...
  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    can jbenton I think what really bothers me isn't even if it is or is not harder to scan, but that it doesn't actually take a design position on the large amount of white space that is the standard news design. It's about the same amount of white space just shoved around...
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      can jbenton Arguably it's *more* white space, but not in service of readability but this arbitrary web designer BS that white space is good. I think it underestimates reader's interest in information density which is the exact same problem as every other modern media-site design :/
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        can jbenton (It also does the really annoying thing where it preloads an entire one or two other articles and appends them to the bottom of the one you are reading which inevitably inflates page views without clear markers of actual reader interest)
        1. …in reply to @Chronotope
          can jbenton The unmotivated design creates some really really weird choices. Like, browsing thru I found this article which is so actively limited by the design: you're being asked to compare photos... but they're obnoxiously large full-content-column photos gawker.com/celebrity/the-nose
          OpenGraph image for gawker.com/celebrity/the-nose
          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
            can jbenton I am on a *giant* monitor and there seems to be no size I can make my browser window that allows me to see a whole photo at once. :/


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