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If I’m looking up a recipe I want to know the ingredients and the method, maybe a few pictures and details like temperatures and cooking times and that’s it. Th
by lethologica 5y ago
If I’m looking up a recipe I want to know the ingredients and the method, maybe a few pictures and details like temperatures and cooking times and that’s it. The rest, the “my grandma made this apple pie and it cured world hunger” fluff isn’t for me, the reader. It’s to please the SEO gods instead.
- krapp 5y agoNo one posts recipes to Hacker News, though. They post articles which are supposed to gratify intellectual curiosity. That implies an interest by the reader in taking the journey, not in reaching the destination as quickly as possible.
- lethologica 5y agoIt’s an analogy. Doesn’t matter what the content is. It applies to most content these days. You’ve never seen a YouTube video on here extended to 10+ minutes to get ad revenue when the main point could have been boiled down to a sentence or two?
- krapp 5y ago>You’ve never seen a YouTube video on here extended to 10+ minutes to get ad revenue when the main point could have been boiled down to a sentence or two? I can't remember seeing that very often. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of Youtube videos well over 10 minutes that were worth the effort. And the list of submissions from youtube doesn't seem that awful.