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Re:Some news from LWN by josteink on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:31AM (#12225049)
> I must say that this website comes across as very unprofessional due to the total lack of any design elements which would make it more easy to consume the content

And you're commenting this on Hacker News. A site built up on tables, inline style-definitions, and where it for half a decade refused to add a simple...

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
...HTML header which made it usable on a mobile.

I'm not saying it's not a factor, but clearly this seems to be an issue you're able to overcome, given the right circumstances and content.

Also, I'd like to think of LWNs look and feel as a "solid" and clean web-page, the way they used to look and work back in the days when HTML was simple. Nothing excessive, and no overdone CSS/JS madness, which increasingly seems to be the norm.

You just point your browser at the page, the browser retrieves the HTML, the HTML contains the content, and the overall wastefulness of network bandwidth is way below 10%. It's the way I wished the web still worked.

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Re:Some news from LWN by ramblenode on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:43PM (#12226763)
This ^

I have never thought much about the design of the site and that's a good thing. It succeeds in delivering information quickly and efficiently, which I imagine is the most important thing for LVN's readers. I would consider almost any new UX feature a regression if there is even a small chance it breaks my browser or slows down page loads.

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