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Since we’re already off-topic here, what is the point of all of these “read the rest” squishings of content? If you click “read all”, they always seem to displa
by obituary_latte 7y ago
Since we’re already off-topic here, what is the point of all of these “read the rest” squishings of content? If you click “read all”, they always seem to display the content immediately meaning it isn’t doing an additional load to get the text meaning they aren’t “saving bandwidth” by not loading content people won’t read. It’s obviously just hidden via css. I don’t get the purpose...especially since as op mentioned there already is so much cruft.
- fgkramer 7y agoYou could track if users actually try to read the rest of the article.
- obituary_latte 7y agoAh ok yeah, that makes some sense. Thanks!
- Spare_account 7y agoIs it not possible for the page to track how far down it has been scrolled? (I've seen plenty of pages that react to scrolling) What does the action of clicking on a button add?
- fgkramer 7y agoYes, it is possible, but bear in mind that this site has an infinite scrolling behaviour, so you could actually scroll down and be reading another article. Then you would have to keep track of the height of each article and account for font sizes and many other things. It is doable, but not usually worth the hassle imo. Plus it is a somewhat common thing on many other sites.