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mk  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 3 Questions with @coffeesp00ns

Thanks, sp00ns. I enjoyed it.

It's funny how widely opinions vary on how Hubski looks. I've head plenty of people tell me that it is ugly in its current state. Many time by Redditors, no less. My goal has been to let the text dominate, since that is what we are here for. Perhaps we should make the ugly style the default?

Or d20?





user-inactivated  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Or d20?

Too timid. Randomly generate a text color. Set the background to its compliment (easy in HSV space). Set link text to the text color shifted towards either black or white, whichever is further away. Set the visited link color to the compliment of the link color.

mk  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

:) It's an homage to the 1st Edition D&D Dungeon Master's Guide.

user-inactivated  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Was that the one with the prostitute encounter table?

hyperflare  ·  3006 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My university uses some crappy open source solution for email, and the single best feature it has is selecting random themes upon each login. I'd like to meet the person who created those themes one day, because they are without fail the most ugly combinations of colour you can find. Two thirds of them aren't even readable!

coffeesp00ns  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I never said hubski was pretty - though I do love how clean everything is without it seeming clinical .

Thank you and your team for making this site.

user-inactivated  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I say the more minimalist and ugly you can make this site, the better. Shoot, sometimes I feel like installing Lynx for the sole purpose of browsing Hubski.

user-inactivated  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I browse hubski on w3m sometimes :) it works alright.

user-inactivated  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Neat.

But apparently mk didn't design this site with obscure text browsers in mind. I can't load more threads when I hit the bottom of the list on global.

Also, I'm going through the options section right now and I think I need a dictionary on me. I don't understand even a fraction of the settings this thing has. But I did disable cookies, so I have that going for me.

Edit: Not that I actually expect you to fix this mk, I'm just goofing around here. Though, I'm trying to figure out why for the life of me it won't let me fill in any fields. I can't log into the site using w3m to save my life.

Second Edit: Okay. I'm logged in and typing from w3m now. No I gotta figure out how to choose which websites I will and will not accept cookies from. This is a cool little toy. I'm kind of digging it.

Third Edit: Apparently everything I type in w3m to post on Hubski gets saved somewhere on my drive. Interesting. I'm writing the file path/directory/thingy to try to find out where it's saved and what it does. Maybe I'll bork my computer. Maybe not. Either way, I have my Linux Mint install disk next to me just in case. Here goes nothing. Weee!

Fourth Edit: Some temp files stay. Some disappear. I have no idea which is which. I'll look into it later. I have a bud over for movie night now. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT BITCHES! YEAAAAAAH!!!

user-inactivated  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The great thing about testing against text browsers are that they encourage accessibility and progressive enhancement. Much of the web looks silly in w3m unfortunately.

user-inactivated  ·  3051 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm actually a bit ignorant when it comes to text based browsers. I've heard two things though, maybe you know if they're true? I hear that they're used for checking websites for some types of malicious codes, as you can't hide anything from them. I've also heard that they're used in combination with Text to Speech programs for the visually impaired. Is that true?