On mobile the icons are about as big as my thumb. On a big screen they are about the size of my thumb held out at arms length. The ratio is basically the same and NO I cannot easily and clearly read every single title on mobile or at a distance, especially the three that I pointed out.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s not the mobile UI though. On mobile they’re significantly bigger than that, with far less on the screen at the same time.
Like this:
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You gave trouble reading those on your phone? If you do I suggest going to see an optometrist and/or getting a much bigger phone and turn the resolution way down.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 3 weeks ago
These guys just want to whine and complain and reminisce about how much better the old days were.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t say every single one was hard to read. You took a screenshot of the ones that are easy to read even when the thumbnail is the size of my thumb. What I said was there were plenty like the examples I pointed out for Hobbit and Dune where they were hard or impossible to read.
You have trouble understanding the difference between a lot of titles and all titles? Maybe you should see someone who can teach you basic reading comprehension skills.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I took a screenshot of the first screen. Weren’t you have a whinge saying that they’re all using the same boring plain white font, and now you’re whining when some use different fonts that you claim are harder to read? Which is it - do you want boring and easy to read, or fancy design that sacrifices UX?
With ones like the lord of the rings, you can clearly see that it is a lord of the rings film, so just click on it and see which one it is. How do you suggest the show “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” on the poster without it just being entirely big white text all over the poster?
On your last statement, maybe you need to brush up on your common sense? There’s never going to be a UI that lets you easily read the full title, including sub-title, of every movie ever released, and its poster art, at every resolution from every viewing distance.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
No, I always said that SOME titles were different fonts and many of those were tiny, with minimal contrast, or heavily stylized and hard to read as thumbnails on TV screens AND mobile devices. Dune, Lord of the Rings, and the Hobbit movies were examples of those specific things because they are in the image in the post.
You do understand that you are replying to more than one person in the comments, right?
NO. They can make a name clear in the thumbnail. It isn’t magic, it just takes a minimal amount of effort per listing.
The LotR part of the text is perfectly fine, if the rest of it was the same size it would be perfectly fine. Dune could be fine if the text had better contrast.
Basically they just need to make thumbnails with readable fucking text. The ones in your screenshhttps://piefed.world/post/1294070/comment/6249020#ot are the right size and contrast, but you also took a screenshot of movies and shows with short titles that already had large high contrast fonts in their regular posters. You picked a screenshot of the opposite of what the problem is.