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>Because the author(s) of this article forgot what makes hypertext so powerful. (In fact, I think a lot of people have forgotten that. Don't be afraid to link t

>Because the author(s) of this article forgot what makes hypertext so powerful. (In fact, I think a lot of people have forgotten that. Don't be afraid to link things, people. Linking to something literally saves you the trouble of explaining it yourself. LINK MORE, PLEASE. I will click.) This is a fine sentiment, but [you] [don't] [link] [every] [word] [in] [your] [sentence] to a dictionary website either, because you expect the reader to know English. In the same way it's perfectly fine to write an article with a target audience that understands the concepts being discussed. Not everything needs to be written for a general audience; this website is exclusively about cryptocurrency, and particularly dense with jargon and slang at that.

alextheparrot 5y ago
This is actually a bit amusing, because one of my favorite reading features on iPad is being able to click and hold on an arbitrary word to look it up. Sure, the UI/UX of a traditional link isn't desirable, but I do want every word to be linkable to the dictionary.
- Arnavion 5y ago
  You can copy-paste a word from the website into your search engine too. The website doesn't have to do anything. Just like the program you used on your iPad didn't do anything, it was the iPad providing the select-and-dictionary feature.
- anyfoo 5y ago
  On the Mac too, you can just "force press" the touchpad on any word and a definition comes up. As a non-native English speaker, I use it quite a lot.
  - mwlp 5y ago
    or highlight and ctrl+cmd+d :)
- saurik 5y ago
  Sounds great as a feature of your client, not of every single site.
- nemetroid 5y ago
  Firefox has an option for this in the right-click menu after selecting text (e.g. by double-clicking).
dylan604 5y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen some of those ad afiliate javascript libraries that add links to words in a paragraphs back to some random website that used a matching keyword that looked very close to your example. At least, way back before I started using blockers.
charonn0 5y ago
It's a poor speaker who blames the audience for not understanding.
- tylersmith 5y ago
  Not every random reader of an article is in its intended audience. The audience the speaker is writing for understands the article fine.
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alextheparrot 5y ago

This is actually a bit amusing, because one of my favorite reading features on iPad is being able to click and hold on an arbitrary word to look it up. Sure, the UI/UX of a traditional link isn't desirable, but I do want every word to be linkable to the dictionary.

Arnavion 5y ago
You can copy-paste a word from the website into your search engine too. The website doesn't have to do anything. Just like the program you used on your iPad didn't do anything, it was the iPad providing the select-and-dictionary feature.
anyfoo 5y ago
On the Mac too, you can just "force press" the touchpad on any word and a definition comes up. As a non-native English speaker, I use it quite a lot.
- mwlp 5y ago
  or highlight and ctrl+cmd+d :)
saurik 5y ago
Sounds great as a feature of your client, not of every single site.
nemetroid 5y ago
Firefox has an option for this in the right-click menu after selecting text (e.g. by double-clicking).

dylan604 5y ago

I'm pretty sure I've seen some of those ad afiliate javascript libraries that add links to words in a paragraphs back to some random website that used a matching keyword that looked very close to your example. At least, way back before I started using blockers.

charonn0 5y ago

It's a poor speaker who blames the audience for not understanding.

tylersmith 5y ago
Not every random reader of an article is in its intended audience. The audience the speaker is writing for understands the article fine.
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