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"Maybe one can argue that knowing the length of a written word has resulted in less people engaging?" Boy, doesn't that just have the distinctive ring of an un
by jerf 7y ago
"Maybe one can argue that knowing the length of a written word has resulted in less people engaging?"
Boy, doesn't that just have the distinctive ring of an uncomfortable truth... at least for some of these cases.
I offer in counterpoint that engagement-focused sites have probably already determined that their content is "less engaging" if it's long enough for a scrollbar to appear at all. If it wasn't for the literal need to stuff 100%+ of the screen with ads, there'd probably be a lot of modern engagement-focused websites doing everything they can to fit on a single screen without scrolling at all.
- ubu7737 7y agoWhen engagement is sold to advertisers, it's difficult to trust any changes to the UI. The scrollbar should be sacred. Otherwise everything will wind up with sliding-window advertisements.