Unclutter
Productivity
browser reader mode
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Reader mode that keeps the original page feel appeals to commenters
From 2 comments
Interesting. When I use a typical reader mode I sometimes lose the motivation to read. I guess the article no longer feels like the thing that I wanted to read. This looks like…
amadeuspagel on HNBeautiful! I hope it will become available for Firefox Mobile someday.
xigoi on HN
Objections
Extension does too much; prefers just removing clutter without new UI
From 2 comments
Interesting. When I use a typical reader mode I sometimes lose the motivation to read. I guess the article no longer feels like the thing that I wanted to read. This looks like…
amadeuspagel on HNThere's no specific feature I find annoying, but rather having a new background, where the original page is only one of the elements on that background. I made an epub reader[1],…
amadeuspagel on HN
Scroll animations zoom the screen out on mobile Safari
From 1 comment
You may want to check your site on mobile Safari. I’m on an iPhone and every time one of your scroll animations plays it zooms the screen out. Really jarring, enough to make me…
samldev on HN
Hidden features like the outline may not be discoverable
From 1 comment
I see! Maybe one problem when hiding UI elements by default is discoverability (I suspect most users wouldn't enable the page outline in Unclutter if it were optional). Do you…
phgn on HN
Requests
Customisable font, size, letter-spacing and line-height
From 1 comment
One thing I hate about alot of these reader tools is that they always never give me proper customization options. Let me configure the font,the font-size, letter-spacing,…
Yoofie on HN
Firefox Mobile support
From 1 comment
Beautiful! I hope it will become available for Firefox Mobile someday.
xigoi on HN
Questions
Whether web standards like forced-colors should be used for theming
From 2 comments
There's a new CSS forced-color mode that somewhat standardises the ability to force user colours on the web. It's related, but distinct from prefers-color-scheme for dark/light…
ZeroGravitas on HNOh that's interesting. But the problem with relying on standards is what to do before people adopt them? (even the support for prefers-color-scheme is pretty bad) I think any…
phgn on HN
Alternatives named
Firefox reader mode
From 1 comment
Vivaldi reader mode
From 1 comment
Vivaldi's reader mode lets you do it.
Bayart on HN
Dark Reader
From 1 comment
No, I just use Dark Reader to turn all sites white text on black background.
xigoi on HN