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If HN and Reddit are any indication, if you post a link to a blog post, people will respond without reading it. People don't like switching domains, especially
by Declanomous 10y ago
If HN and Reddit are any indication, if you post a link to a blog post, people will respond without reading it. People don't like switching domains, especially if they are browsing from an app. (Myself included)
- cloverich 10y agoSure but that's not just being lazy, its also a learned habit. There's a great deal of blog posts (like most writing in general) that is 5% information and 95% fluff. Sometimes you want the art, sometimes (esp. the engineering mindset) you just want the information. Skipping to comments frequently yields this, often with bonus comments like "I'm an actual expert and that post is very innaccurate".
- majewsky 10y agoThis. I frequently find myself skimming over HN comments on a submission before reading the article, because it provides a hint at whether reading the submission is actually worth my time.
- josephb 10y agoOr in this case, the HN comments actually provide a more complete article/summary :-)
- digi_owl 10y agoAlso blogs often mean fancy HTML etc, something that rarely produce a good reading experience on mobile devices.
- ge0rg 10y agoIn my experience, twitter is one of the worst offenders here, with an exorbitant amount of HTML, Javascript and pop-ups just to prevent me from reading 140 characters.
- Declanomous 10y agoIronically, I find Facebook's webpage way better on mobile than their actual app. I believe their app may originally have been designed for cellphone battery endurance testing. After a bit of hacking, someone figured out it could access Facebook and they decided to release it as an app.