>Web developers go out of their way to break Reader Mode. What incentive would they have to create content for a platform that competes with the web, which acti

>Web developers go out of their way to break Reader Mode. What incentive would they have to create content for a platform that competes with the web, which actively limits their ability . . . ? It is unrealistic to expect most publishers of web pages -- or even most publishers of mostly-static text-heavy web pages -- to put their content on a competitor. It is still worthwhile IMO to try to steal from the web 1% or 2% of the web's user-hours ("person-hours"?) and that can probably be done (over say 5 years) with a small fraction of the web's static textual content (plus a little content that is not available on the web). My guess is that the largest beneficial effect (on the world) of doing that will be to convince more people that the web is a mess (by showing them a less messy alternative even though they will continue to spend most of their online hours on the web). Technically inclined people and people who used the web (or maybe Usenet) in the 1990s either already know that or cannot be persuaded of it regardless of what we do, but perhaps the most important effect of stealing 1% of the web's user-hours is convincing more people outside of those 2 groups of it. P.S. I have already noticed the potential for machine learning to help users of the web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27856814