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This format is unreadable on mobile, it keeps opening up my keyboard and scrolling up a bit when it does.

I understand and appreciate the "why" of the format, but this also could have been a non-editable "editor-like" presentation and achieved the same result.

This site's mobile experience mirrors my feelings when having to edit deeply nested and templated YAML.

Is editing deeply nested JSON and XML a better experience than YAML? I don't think so.

I’d argue yes, strictly due to the lack of significant whitespace.

That's a really odd reason to prefer something used as a configuration language where readability is important.

From the bottom of the article:

# ps. By design, this website is as usable as YAML.

It's intentionally bad.

And from their own testimonials section:

The good news (I realised) was that you can select all the text of the site, and then delete it. Problem solved.

This site is beautiful in it's own way.

Its. It's is a contraction of it+is

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