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The Disconnect: An offline-only, digital magazine of commentary, fiction, poetry

14 points by notpeter 8y ago

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AaronFriel 8y ago
Brilliant idea, but it is a bit of a pain for desktop users, no? I'm not sure how I feel about impairing the usability of the site for people whose primary network connection is an older desktop. I wonder what their bounce rate is for links shared on different devices?
- burkaman 8y ago
  What do you mean? You can disable internet with one click on any device.
  - xeromal 8y ago
    How do I do that on my desktop? https://imgur.com/a/xG1YWwU https://imgur.com/a/xG1YWwU
    - burkaman 8y ago
      Oh, sorry, I swear there used to be a Internet Off switch there, the same as on wifi. I guess it's harder than I thought.
  - AaronFriel 8y ago
    Okay, pretend for a moment I have a desktop, wired computer. OSX or Windows. (But most likely Windows.) Pretend I am computer illiterate family member. Please tell me how to view this digital magazine.
    - burkaman 8y ago
      Computerate illiterate is a different question, I was talking about a knowledgeable person on a desktop. But I was wrong about that.
- abhiminator 8y ago
  If you're on Firefox web browser: File-> Work Offline should do the trick. You can access the File menu by tapping once on your 'alt' key.
- mediumdeviation 8y ago
  But how would they measure bounce rate when analytics won't work when the user is disconnected? :) Anyway since we're on HN you should know that Chrome has a "offline" button in its network tab in its developer tool, used for testing offline features, so you can take a single tab offline, instead of disconnecting everything.
nayuki 8y ago
What mechanism does the web site use to detect whether you're online or offline?
- pritambaral 8y ago
  Looks like browser events 'offline' and 'online': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOnLine/Online_and_offline_events https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOn...
nayuki 8y ago
Related (also on HN front page): http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/the-online-magazine-you-cant-read-online http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/the-online-magazine-you-c... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782794
- tomhoward 8y ago
  Also discussed on HN a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079619

14 points by notpeter 8y ago

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Brilliant idea, but it is a bit of a pain for desktop users, no? I'm not sure how I feel about impairing the usability of the site for people whose primary network connection is an older desktop. I wonder what their bounce rate is for links shared on different devices?

burkaman 8y ago
What do you mean? You can disable internet with one click on any device.
- xeromal 8y ago
  How do I do that on my desktop? https://imgur.com/a/xG1YWwU https://imgur.com/a/xG1YWwU
  - burkaman 8y ago
    Oh, sorry, I swear there used to be a Internet Off switch there, the same as on wifi. I guess it's harder than I thought.
- AaronFriel 8y ago
  Okay, pretend for a moment I have a desktop, wired computer. OSX or Windows. (But most likely Windows.) Pretend I am computer illiterate family member. Please tell me how to view this digital magazine.
  - burkaman 8y ago
    Computerate illiterate is a different question, I was talking about a knowledgeable person on a desktop. But I was wrong about that.
abhiminator 8y ago
If you're on Firefox web browser: File-> Work Offline should do the trick. You can access the File menu by tapping once on your 'alt' key.
mediumdeviation 8y ago
But how would they measure bounce rate when analytics won't work when the user is disconnected? :) Anyway since we're on HN you should know that Chrome has a "offline" button in its network tab in its developer tool, used for testing offline features, so you can take a single tab offline, instead of disconnecting everything.

nayuki 8y ago

What mechanism does the web site use to detect whether you're online or offline?

pritambaral 8y ago
Looks like browser events 'offline' and 'online': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOnLine/Online_and_offline_events https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOn...

nayuki 8y ago

Related (also on HN front page): http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/the-online-magazine-you-cant-read-online http://nautil.us/issue/63/horizons/the-online-magazine-you-c... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17782794

tomhoward 8y ago
Also discussed on HN a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079619