One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time

Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by monster_group on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:34AM (#16003578)

Pardon my UI / CSS ignorance but these days I find that I have to zoom in every single article on the web to read it comfortably. I had to zoom this article at 200%. The default text is just too small and I am just using a standard HD display. It would be even smaller on higher resolutions. Do people not view their own website? Does everybody else also find themselves zooming in most of the web pages. What am I missing?

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by Al-Khwarizmi on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:56AM (#16003647)

I zoom in pretty much everything too.

The vast majority of web designers are clueless or just don't care about font size recommendations. Most studies recommend at least 18 px for body text, but almost every website goes smaller. Medium is a notable exception, they have sane defaults.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by kachnuv_ocasek on Monday December 25, 2017 @08:08AM (#16003961)

I have the opposite problem. I tend to zoom out since huge font sizes became a trend a few years ago. They're so humongous that it's very tiring to read at the default size. This is especially pronounced on websites like Medium, where I have the zoom set to 80 % permanently.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by munchor on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:43AM (#16003606)

It might be related to you having a 4K/Retina monitor and the website's author having an older (i.e. regular) display.

The author might never have tested their website on a large display like ours and thus it'll look a bit odd and we have to zoom in.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by have_faith on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:59AM (#16003657)

Don't hi-res monitors have UI scaling built in to the OS? so sizes should be roughly comparable

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by digi_owl on Monday December 25, 2017 @09:23AM (#16004166)

Sometimes it feels like everything is still done by pixel counting on bitmaps.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by user5994461 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:03PM (#16016574)

Scaling never worked properly on any OS.

It's an impossible problem to solve because sizes are given in pixel or percentage. Whatever you try to adjust, it will be utterly wrong on some combination of content and display.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by catdog on Monday December 25, 2017 @05:47AM (#16003620)

No it's tiny on a regular display

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by mcny on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:02AM (#16003667)

Try the reader view available on Mozilla Firefox (but perhaps also on other browsers)

Gets me from https://screenshots.firefox.com/2Gu0kninnhAnZKVw/www.smashco... to https://i.imgur.com/tld6Kl6.png

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by amiraliakbari on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:50AM (#16003790)

Yes, it's great for focusing on content. I wish I could enable the reader view by default for a list of sites. Or even better, the browser does so automatically when a page has lots of text and is not responsive/is too small.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by oftenwrong on Monday December 25, 2017 @11:05AM (#16004546)

There are extensions that do some of those things.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-rea...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-v...

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by badsectoracula on Monday December 25, 2017 @09:15AM (#16004137)

Funny you say that because i find the font size used by that site to be the most comfortable for me (and i have far from a good sight...) and i really dislike sites that use huge letters (like f.e. Medium). Then again, i prefer small font sizes in general and i dislike the tendency to waste space in modern UIs - both web-based and desktop (and mobile, but i don't use that much and in mobile it is kinda of acceptable because fingers - although i'd really like it if mobiles came with a stylus instead and adjusted their UIs accordingly).

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by digi_owl on Monday December 25, 2017 @09:22AM (#16004164)

What irritates me more about Medium and like than the font size is the use of persistent banners both at the top and bottom of the screen.

Maybe fine when reading in portrait on a tablet or like, but not at all fine on a desktop.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by ahnberg on Monday December 25, 2017 @08:13AM (#16003972)

I often use something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easyreader/boamfhe... to give a nice reading experience for lengthy articles. Works fairly well.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by SuperNinKenDo on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:50AM (#16003791)

I'd been doing this a lot lately and thought it might be time for a new prescription on my lenses. Maybe it's just poor UX after all. I've never been a "content should be completely separate from presentation" guy, but recent design choice by websites have pushed me further in that direction.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by qualitytime on Monday December 25, 2017 @06:03AM (#16003668)

The sites are not "responsive".

This particular site starts with a relatively small font and not responsive which I'm sure makes it a pain to use on small displays.

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Re:One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meeting... by scarface74 on Monday December 25, 2017 @03:03PM (#16005471)

What am I missing?

Reader View

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