Hey, I just started as Director of Engineering at VanityFair, and I can definitely agree with you our site is in much need of a UX overhaul. We are working to address the points you made plus may more issues that affect the site.

Hopefully the redesign won't give us light gray text on a white background, which seems to the rage these days. :)

I had zero problems reading the print version.

Haha! It's definitely #000 on #fff. The design is very clean; on mobile it's almost as clean as the readability function on iOS.

Which is why I say Web design isn't the solution, Web design is the problem.

I wish pretty much every damned site in existence rendered as on Readability.

> I wish pretty much every damned site in existence rendered as on Readability.

Yeah, my partially completed blog platform (who doesn't have one of those somewhere) uses pretty much exactly that design.

There is something to be said for getting to HTML paragraphs and lists, and then stopping.

None of this "Everybody has a 2048 pixel wide monitor to view my 4 huge columns in" (I used divs instead of tables, so it's OK that it takes 2 K pixels to render, right? Right?)

I also like headings, tables of contents, and super and subscript.

LaTeX equation input is also something that's creeping up my "must have" list.