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PLEASE let this godforsaken phase of gifs after every other paragraph come to an end already. It makes yet another fascinating article basically unreadable.
by AdmiralAsshat 9y ago
PLEASE let this godforsaken phase of gifs after every other paragraph come to an end already. It makes yet another fascinating article basically unreadable.
- yosyp 9y agoSafari "Show Reader View" gets rid of all those annoying gifs and makes the formatting nice. Now I practically use it to read all web-based content.
- Hoshea 9y agoAgreed, I even went into this article after reading your comment thinking "Hmm, I'll just scroll through quickly and block all of the images then take my time reading without the distractions"...I had to give up after 5 or 6, didn't even bother reading the article. EDIT: Saw the Safari reader view comment below and ended up using Edge's reading view for this. That makes it tolerable but I really shouldn't have to do this.
- dmm 9y agoThis is yet another article improved by noscript.
- sametmax 9y agoI like it personnally. So maybe just puy a disable gif button ?
- travisl12 9y agoSeriously, I was debating opening my dev console and just selecting them all deleting. Then I started thinking, how long would this article look without all this shit in it? Lucky for them it was interesting enough of a read or I would have closed it outright.
- WaxProlix 9y agoI just right click and select the images with uBlock as they come on screen - maybe not the most programmatic way of dealing with them (blocking all of their host, assuming they were all hosted by the same platform, might have been quicker) but it saved some gif aggravation.
- KGIII 9y agohttps://www.textise.net/ https://www.textise.net/
- emodendroket 9y agoNeat. The story was interesting enough with that tool.
- KGIII 9y agoIt sure comes in handy on a tablet or on mobile networks. I keep it bookmarked on all such devices.
- pinum 9y agoHow so? Are you saying the presence of the gifs actually makes it harder to read the text for you?
- pavel_lishin 9y agoImagine that after every paragraph, there was just a large empty space you had to scroll past. Like a book where every other page is blank. Yes, it's actually physically harder to read.
- jerf 9y agoWell... yes! It does! Block out all the images and replace them with whitespace. Now, fully remove the images. Which is easier to read? Well-designed use of whitespace is necessary to make text easy to read. However, this is neither well-designed, nor whitespace. I constantly have to scroll down, reposition the next couple of paragraphs on my screen, and reacquire the text. That is not easy to read.
- bitchfest 9y agoIs HN so annoyingly meta that every fucking thread has to include a non-trivial amount of bitching about the format, writing style, etc. of the article? Jesus Christ, if you don’t like it just shut up and move on.