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If you want a technical audience to read your page, get rid of the videos and unnecessary animations.

• ealhad 8y ago
  Isn't that exactly what reader mode is for?
• saagarjha 8y ago
  > It’s so predictable that developers will pooh-pooh having to write timezone code, almost as much as it is predictable that some clueless commenter on Hacker News will complain that this page has autoplaying video on it. And then someone will calmly quote this passage in response, quietly pleased with themselves that the initial commenter was rude and certainly didn’t read the post at all. Then a third person will chime in on the thread saying the author was playing you all like a fiddle anyway, and the real problem is that the post was way too long to start with. I guess I get to play the part of the second person…
  • zifnab06 8y ago
    The author played us all like a fiddle.
    • mildweed 8y ago
      It was too long to start with
    • exikyut 8y ago
      He's playing my laptop like a fiddle, too, a really high-pitched one: all the videos are keeping the CPU at 100% CPU so I had to downclock everything to keep the system below 64°C. So: the first time I ever found a paragraph like the one the GP has quoted, happened on the same site I've ever been on where the autoplaying videos are making my whole system (including typing this comment) lag worse than any other site I've been on. At least it gave me one good idea for the Extension I'm Making One Day™: watch the CPU and if the current page is killing it and it has autoplaying videos and/or CSS animations, automatically kill both. In the meantime, I had to close the article as it was unreadable. (Wow, getting my low typing latency back is wonderful!)