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This is the worst presentation of a listicle I have ever seen. There is no introduction to tell me who is selecting these articles and why I should believe the

This is the worst presentation of a listicle I have ever seen. There is no introduction to tell me who is selecting these articles and why I should believe their claim that these are the best articles on this subject. It’s displayed as a spreadsheet that’s far too big to fit on my screen even if I rotate the tablet horizontally; I have to scroll all the way to the right to read the brief summary of what each article is about. And I cannot scroll vertically. At all. I drag the screen and it just tries to select the cells, or scrolls whichever column I’m pressing on left and right a little. Seriously this is hilariously illegible and unusable on the iPad that I am looking at this with. Dump this into some other format that actually gets reflowed properly.

MaximumMadness 7y ago
Appreciate the feedback - I use Airtable to organize a lot of my own information, so I figured it'd be useful for sharing articles as well. Unfortunately, it's not the best medium for mobile.
jccalhoun 7y ago
I'm on a windows laptop and didn't even realize that there were links listed on the right side until I started writing this link and went back to check that it was a pain to find the link. So it isn't the best medium for laptop either.
bl0b 7y ago
Display issues aside, I personally find this format far superior to a typical listicle you might find on the ad-revenue-driven web, with banner ads between every item and a heap of JS running on your page for no reason.
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- LanceH 7y ago
  What is the JS doing on those, anyway?
  - bozzcl 7y ago
    User tracking, mostly.
- BelleOfTheBall 7y ago
  Well, there's a healthy middle ground between an ad-infested 50-page listicle and an Excel spreadsheet that requires you to scroll back and forth to get all the data. Presenting it as a single-page text structured as: Article name Article source, author Article subject matter would be much easier on the eyes. And they could put an ad way down below if they wanted to or on the side. (Or no ad at all.)

MaximumMadness 7y ago

Appreciate the feedback - I use Airtable to organize a lot of my own information, so I figured it'd be useful for sharing articles as well. Unfortunately, it's not the best medium for mobile.

jccalhoun 7y ago

I'm on a windows laptop and didn't even realize that there were links listed on the right side until I started writing this link and went back to check that it was a pain to find the link. So it isn't the best medium for laptop either.

bl0b 7y ago

Display issues aside, I personally find this format far superior to a typical listicle you might find on the ad-revenue-driven web, with banner ads between every item and a heap of JS running on your page for no reason.

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LanceH 7y ago
What is the JS doing on those, anyway?
- bozzcl 7y ago
  User tracking, mostly.
BelleOfTheBall 7y ago
Well, there's a healthy middle ground between an ad-infested 50-page listicle and an Excel spreadsheet that requires you to scroll back and forth to get all the data. Presenting it as a single-page text structured as: Article name Article source, author Article subject matter would be much easier on the eyes. And they could put an ad way down below if they wanted to or on the side. (Or no ad at all.)