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new blog post: dissecting the loaded phrase "users are stupid," and why FOSS really could learn a lot from design.

it's the first post in a series I'm hoping to do about a lot of stuff on user experience and FOSS.

b.charr.xyz/the-user

Erin 🕯 @er1n

@clar jsyk this line spacing is (for me at least) almost unreadable, and the animations when i resize the window are really jarring (i don't mind them, but for some people i know that kind of thing is a big problem)

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@er1n tbqh the animations when resizing the site were entirely unintentional and I realise it was accidental because of transition: all; I'll fix this tomorrow

as far as line spacing: is this because it's too low or too high?

@clar far too low; it looks like this on my system:

@er1n so I actually had this problem too in Firefox Focus/Klar on my phone but assumed it was a bug and not actually a problem with the CSS. that looks horrible and I'm sorry you got that; it's supposed to be much higher

mind sharing what browser you're using?

@clar Chromium, "Version 67.0.3396.87 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit)" if it means anything

@er1n yeah I should have tested in chromium and just assumed that because it worked before and I'm only doing minor tweaks it wouldn't affect anything.

I'll probably figure it out tomorrow

@er1n PS I figured it out: normalize.css has a few things to normalise line-height for WebKit specifically and it's overriding my line-height settings. It worked before I added normalize.css and I guess I assumed that adding it wouldn't fuck things up

I'll fix this once I get back from work

@er1n I finally fixed this and apparently it was that `line-height:1rem` on the root element just outright doesn't work on chrome because Google is full of quality developers.