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		ben509 on Dec 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Self-host your fonts for better performance > The secret of democracy is that, even when there are no good options to choose from, people agreed on the solution. No, a plurality of people agreed on the solution, and everyone else disagreed with it but was stuck with it. > Therefore you are not a the whim of a single person or entity and this legitimates the way you live. Now you're at the whim of a popularity contest.

fiddlerwoaroof on Dec 4, 2020 [–]

Yeah, to me the solution is configurability with sensible defaults. It increases the work of the developers, but it has the benefit of reducing the number of decisions the developers have to make on behalf of the user.

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