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Aside: what the fuck is going on with this webpage? The only scripts I have blocked are from stripe.com (why are there stripe.com scripts on an newsletter?) and

Aside: what the fuck is going on with this webpage? The only scripts I have blocked are from stripe.com (why are there stripe.com scripts on an newsletter?) and the webpage totally breaks rendering in Chrome. Instead there's a horizontal scroll bar that, when scrolled, renders a different part of the article but ruins the older parts. Is this some method of tracking users reading through the entire article? Also the entire newsletter content is in a variable in a script tag? If javascript is disabled, you see the entire article. What is the point of all this javascript?

frou_dh 6y ago
It's against HN's written Guidelines to moan about the format of articles
- diroussel 6y ago
  But it would be interesting to those of us that build web pages why this one works this way. This is not just bad formatting, it’s a deeper mystery.
  - frou_dh 6y ago
    The caricature of HN is indeed a café of webdevs talking shop the whole time
- mhh__ 6y ago
  And yet people still do it, always accompanied by a reference to the guidelines. This isn't HackerParliament, I don't mind people venting about bad web design. Moaning about clickbait, however, I immediately downvote because it actually does contribute nothing.
  - arduanika 6y ago
    > HackerParliament The right honourable website is rather slapdash with its scripts, without which it cannot render well upon Her Majesty the Chrome. Hear hear!