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Bug Blindness
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raverbashing
· 2026-08-30 Sun 08:00 UTC ·
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Does having a website with no set-width and unusable without reader mode counts as bug blindness?
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stavros
· 2026-08-30 Sun 09:48 UTC ·
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I'd say it does, since it doesn't work well.
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mrob
· 2026-08-30 Sun 10:15 UTC ·
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No. Designers shouldn't force their own preferences on third parties. Everybody likes different text presentation, so websites should stick to the defaults and let readers configure their browsers as they prefer.
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raverbashing
· 2026-08-30 Sun 10:32 UTC ·
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> Designers shouldn't force their own preferences on third parties.
Fallback to the default
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a design choice, even if it doesn't look like it
Fallback to the default is a design choice, even if it doesn't look like it