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Don't take this the wrong way because I'm genuinely asking - how is this useful? All this does is cut out the sidebar/header content along with the graphs. I ha
by supergauntlet 7y ago
Don't take this the wrong way because I'm genuinely asking - how is this useful? All this does is cut out the sidebar/header content along with the graphs. I hate bad web design as much as the next guy especially on text and pictures websites, but I don't get what the site you linked is trying to accomplish.
- tw04 7y agoIt bypasses the paywall.
- fintler 7y agoIt removes the autoplay video ad, the floating banner ad header, and the paywall footer that make me read the article in 3 inches of vertical space.
- SilasX 7y agoIt cuts out the sidebar/header content, along with all the usability-breaking stuff sites normally dump on us. Isn't that enough? I hate that it's depriving them of views and revenue when they did legit journalism[1], but considering how webcancerous most news sites are, and how it probably wouldn't cost them much on net to revert to a sane design, I don't feel all that bad. [1] other than worshipping the mantra of "the Economy depends on high consumer spending", of course.
- munk-a 7y agoMostly it's just to make articles (text content) readable as their text content. I, personally, have little patience for being advertised to or being asked to check out "interesting related content"... someone linked an article they thought was worth reading so I wanted to read it, this makes reading the article as simple and direct as a plain text file. I linked it here because I know other folks enjoy it and I thought it'd be considerate to minimize the number of times the article needed to be reparsed to strip out the weird bits.