The nice thing about fanfiction.net’s design is that it’s compatible with readability, which replaces its design with a more pleasant and relaxing one.
Yes, they have a very simple interface. There are a fair number of sites that are hideously unnavigable just because the interfaces have so many options and are so colorful that it is hard to quickly move one’s eyes over for what one is looking. FF.net keeps things simple.
Okay, it’s not saturated with color and it doesn’t have animated anythings, but in every other way it is overcomplicated and hard to navigate and has bad signage.
It depends on your browser, but probably. It’s a popular enough extension that I’d be pretty surprised if any browser that can do extensions at all doesn’t have something equivalent.
(Also possibly notable: If you’re using Firefox, pressing ‘esc’ will stop all animated gifs on the page until the page is reloaded.)
Use the whole screen. It’s very annoying for lesswrong to show up as a narrow strip down the screen.
I prefer it this way. Really wide lines of text are difficult to track properly.
This could be added as a user preference, like it is in fanfiction.net.
I approve in general of people being able to manipulate stuff with preferences, but “like fanfiction.net″ made me shiver.
The nice thing about fanfiction.net’s design is that it’s compatible with readability, which replaces its design with a more pleasant and relaxing one.
FF.net does that, but they do it wrong. They do it as a fixed percentage of the screen, not a fixed max-width.
Maybe LW user preferences could give users the choice of doing it either way? (I.e. as a fixed percentage or a fixed number of pixels.)
Does FF.net do anything related to usability right :)
...The text is readable against the background?
Score one for FF.net :)
Yes, they have a very simple interface. There are a fair number of sites that are hideously unnavigable just because the interfaces have so many options and are so colorful that it is hard to quickly move one’s eyes over for what one is looking. FF.net keeps things simple.
I hate hate hate the top mouseover menu that pops down and pushes what I wanted to click out from underneath my mouse. Bad FF.Net!
Edit—please disregard this post
Okay, it’s not saturated with color and it doesn’t have animated anythings, but in every other way it is overcomplicated and hard to navigate and has bad signage.
...except advertisements, of course.
Adblock ftw.
Is this something I can easily obtain?
It depends on your browser, but probably. It’s a popular enough extension that I’d be pretty surprised if any browser that can do extensions at all doesn’t have something equivalent.
(Also possibly notable: If you’re using Firefox, pressing ‘esc’ will stop all animated gifs on the page until the page is reloaded.)