Substantial redesign of the website

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Akarsh Simha

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Oct 4, 2025, 4:27:15 AM (7 days ago) Oct 4
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Hey folks

I gave the website's UI some love today, with the aim of getting it to render better on mobile phones. I have opened ADS a few times on my phone while observing to try and look through the constellation-wise indexes. While I haven't yet made that experience a "wow", it's better now with the "viewport" tag that modern browsers support to rescale the contents depending on the device size. Most articles and ORs should render decently on your phone. I also put a limit on the width of text in most places to ~70 characters per line, this makes it easier to read.

The other major change is the navigation bar on the top. Instead of overflowing and looking ugly on a phone, it now folds and shows you a "kebab menu" (the three vertical dots) that has the remaining navigation links.

Also, the underlined hyperlinks are gone, they look really old-fashioned in today's web aesthetics.

If you find any bugs in how the site renders on Chrome / Safari / Internet Explorer / Whatever, do let me know.

The site is now pretty heavy on JavaScript, you certainly want at least a modern computer. Let me know if any pages are particularly slow, I think I cut down the JavaScript use on most such pages already.

Finally, web programming is not my strength. I'm very happy if someone steps in to improve the UX, it's after all open source on Github.

Regards
Akarsh

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