Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but ...
by mikeash on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:04AM
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I understand the annoyance. But surely coming from a site full of power users, people can just change the CSS, or copy/paste the text elsewhere.
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Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but ...
by danielhunt on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:07AM
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What gets me, is that any site that pops up on the front page here that isn't black-text-on-white-or-light-grey-background gets hammered because of the sensitivities of those commenting.
This, despite the fact that the text on the vast majority of these sites is perfectly legible.
You are right, though - select-all+copy+paste is trivial.
... and send-to-pocket is even easier
Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but ...
by DanBC on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:11AM
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No one has yet complained about the text colours.
> This, despite the fact that the text on the vast majority of these sites is perfectly legible.
To you. To other people they're not perfectly legible, they're unreadable. Why deliberately chose to exclude people?
Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but ...
by mkrdouble on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:36AM
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Yeah, I don't see why it's so bad to point out that the site is completely illegible. Reminds me a bit of Wired magazine circa 1997.
Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but ...
by mikeash on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:49AM
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It's fine to point out that the colors are troublesome. It's bad to complain about how you can't read it and your eyes still hurt, as if there's no way to avoid it.
Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but ...
by mikeash on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:14AM
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There are two top-level comments complaining about the colors that were posted about 10 minutes before you posted this.
Re:“I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but ...
by mikeash on Sunday January 25, 2015 @11:12AM
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And apparently not only do people feel a need to complain about something they can trivially fix themselves, but they also need to downvote people who point out that they can fix it themselves. Guys: how about taking some responsibility for yourselves? If you have a problem that you can easily fix, then you don't actually have a problem.