Read Something Wonderful

Posted by snorbleck 10 hours ago

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Comment by egypturnash 9 hours ago

I am amazed at this page's CSS. The body text is small so I hit command-+ to make it bigger... and it gets smaller instead. Reset and hit command--... and it also gets smaller. And reader mode's broken.

Comment by pards 2 hours ago

Yeah, really bad UX. Unreadable.

I zoomed on Firefox on MacOS and the two finger scroll stops working. The scrollbar appears momentarily so I grabbed it but it jumps to the next article and scrolls left, which pushes the next article off the page to the right.

Comment by vee-kay 7 hours ago

Pinch-to-zoom works on mobile (Android) for this site, since each post/article is just an image with a heading.

Swiping up to see the next post/article also retains the zoom, but the fonts & sizes in the posts/articles are not consistent, so we may need to zoom again to make the content fit better on the screen or to make it more legible.

The site reminds me of one of the glorious tools of the old Web - StumbleUpon (integrated as a browser toolbar) - which allowed to jump to random sites upvoted/liked by users. During its heydays, it even allowed users to host their own webpages, and interact in community forum, so like-minded strangers could discuss their fave topics and share nice new finds (websites, tools, etc.).

Comment by crooked-v 9 hours ago

It's because the "body text" is actually a screenshot of text, for some bizarre reason.

Comment by askew 2 hours ago

Heh, and as the real text in the left and right sidebars scales, the article preview shrinks. Needs some constraints on the centre column.

Comment by wormpilled 8 hours ago

>for some bizarre reason.

Because it retains the design of the original piece, makes complete sense to do it like that.

Downvoted for this lmao, you guys are pathetic.

Comment by manuelmoreale 7 hours ago

I’m not sure why people are downvoting you. The site is a collection of links to other written pieces posted on other sites. To make it visually interesting they decided to add screenshots for each entry which is an entirely reasonable thing to do.

It’s what every single gallery site does.

What would a better alternative be? Adding iframes?

Comment by Timwi 3 hours ago

I'm downvoting because of the insulting addendum.

Comment by mainmailman 19 minutes ago

Brave

Comment by efilife 57 minutes ago

he was downvoted before editing it in so it still makes no sense

Comment by egypturnash 9 hours ago

hahaha wtf

Comment by yd4hn 8 hours ago

If this collection of articles would get updated in the future, I hope there is a rss feed for it. But it seems that the site is just a promotion for this Matter app...

Comment by gcr 1 hour ago

Links to some articles are broken, eg. https://www.mikkelaaland.com/sweat-bathing-and-the-body.html gives a cert error on iOS

Comment by nilirl 9 hours ago

Beautiful UI.

What's the criteria for pieces promoted?

Comment by layman51 8 hours ago

Same here. I'm really curious about this too. What do they mean by "wonderful"? I suppose some of the pieces here might not be very well-known or popular, but they are inspiring, or maybe they are a good resource for learning something. All I can see is they are maybe associated with a read-later app?

Comment by mentalfist 8 hours ago

At a quick glance, the main criteria seems for it to be libertarian and anti-socialism.

Comment by snorbleck 8 hours ago

not quite. it's random selections every visit to the site.

Comment by photios 7 hours ago

Wondering about that too. What are the "wonderfullness" criteria?

For example, the first article I clicked on: https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-soci...

has some pretty vile stuff:

> Non-offending pedophiles should be more widely accepted by society. It’s unfair to ostracize someone for a desire they were born with, and integrating them into society makes them less likely to cause harm.

Comment by sambapa 6 hours ago

Whats vile about that?

Comment by IAmBroom 22 minutes ago

Amorality.

There's no evidence that anyone is born with particular sexual deviations. It attempts to simultaneously absolve and normalize attitudes that ideate rape of children, so long as they don't act on it. That's a pretty thin and permeable line to draw.

Comment by efilife 56 minutes ago

The truth

Comment by peterlada 1 hour ago

This needs a subscribe or RSS feed

Comment by vaylian 4 hours ago

I recognize many of these, because I've found them through hacker news before. There's probably a lot more treasures on that list.

Comment by greenfields3 2 hours ago

Sorry but two of the top 3 articles were “Friday Night Meatballs: How to Change Tour Life with Pasta”, “The Real Heroes are Dead” and “Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct”.

None of those are wonderful to me.

Comment by nicbou 6 hours ago

I have been following that website a while. The curation is great, but the UI is annoying. I can’t easily right click or long press to share with Instapaper. I can’t scroll past the ones I have already seen. A list of links would be much better.

Comment by est 9 hours ago

what am I looking at?

Cards of text that I have to click to further read?

Comment by ThrowawayTestr 45 minutes ago

A curated list of links, yes. These have been around since the Internet was created.

Comment by listic 9 hours ago

Apparently, yes. Apparently, they present a curated set of texts.

Comment by curtisblaine 5 hours ago

It's not a bad concept. Seeing the first paragraphs of an article helps me decide quickly if I want to invest time on it or not. I would like to do that with books, if there was a reliable way to get the first page of a large number of them.