I am amazed at this page's CSS. The body text is small so I hit command-+ to make it bigger... and it gets <i>smaller</i> instead. Reset and hit command--... and it also gets smaller. And reader mode's broken.
Pinch-to-zoom works on mobile (Android) for this site, since each post/article is just an image with a heading.<p>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.<p>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.).
Yeah, really bad UX. Unreadable.<p>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.
> I hit command-+ to make it bigger... and it gets smaller instead. Reset and hit command--... and it also gets smaller.<p>Fun fact, this also occurs on HN on android/chrome when going from 100% to 110% :)<p>And yes it's infuriating when you're just trying to enlarge text.
i got a blank page
It's because the "body text" is actually a <i>screenshot of text</i>, for some bizarre reason.
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...
Beautiful UI.<p>What's the criteria for pieces promoted?
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?
At a quick glance, the main criteria seems for it to be libertarian and anti-socialism.
Wondering about that too. What are the "wonderfullness" criteria?<p>For example, the first article I clicked on: <a href="https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-social-norms/" rel="nofollow">https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-soci...</a><p>has some pretty vile stuff:<p>> 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.
This needs a subscribe or RSS feed
I recognize many of these, because I've found them through hacker news before. There's probably a lot more treasures on that list.
Links to some articles are broken, eg. <a href="https://www.mikkelaaland.com/sweat-bathing-and-the-body.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.mikkelaaland.com/sweat-bathing-and-the-body.html</a> gives a cert error on iOS
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.
Feyman at his finest:<p><a href="https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf</a>
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”.<p>None of those are wonderful to me.
what am I looking at?<p>Cards of text that I have to click to further read?
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.
A curated list of links, yes. These have been around since the Internet was created.
Apparently, yes.
Apparently, they present a curated set of texts.