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Seems like an interesting article, but I really distike some of the website choices here. Why is the first sentence, just the title repeated? Why do you have ad

Seems like an interesting article, but I really distike some of the website choices here. Why is the first sentence, just the title repeated? Why do you have ads for five other articles mixed in with the content? The article is not that long, so that seems like way overkill.

ghuntley 4y ago
Some good feedback here! > Why is the first sentence, just the title repeated? An artefact of using Ghost defaults; I've moved the excerpt from the main article into the social media cards section to improve readability. > other articles mixed in with the content By referencing the other articles which are relevant to points made within the post becomes shorter. > The article is not that long The post is meant to be short because it's about a simple convention that I've adopted that has helped me. Maybe others will find value in the idea as well.
- apeace 4y ago
  I see what you’re going for, but I agree the article snippets are a poor design choice. I keep losing context while trying to read the article. The article blocks feel like section breaks, but they’re not. There are already links in the paragraph text, and those links are highlighted a different color. I can click on them to see the other article if I’m interested.
  - niek_pas 4y ago
    I’m inclined to agree. At first, I wasn’t sure if those blocks were ads or other articles on your own website; they interrupt the reading experience in an unpleasant way.
- yesbabyyes 4y ago
  Another hopefully helpful piece of feedback: "as per say" is incorrect. The correct spelling is Latin, "per se", meaning "in itself". It also doesn't make sense to preceed it with "as".
- tylersmith 4y ago
  FWIW I liked the way the other articles were linked. I opened most of them as I was reading and then went back to them after the main article.
- heretogetout 4y ago
  I'm reading it on a mobile browser and I strongly agree with apeace, the blocks interrupt the flow. Maybe it would be better if the images weren't in each block, or maybe if the images weren't the same size as the image above the article text. All told each block is more than half the height of my screen and each paragraph is a bit less than half the height so it feels like I'm reading the first paragraph of several distinct articles (like an RSS feed?).
michaelmior 4y ago
> Why do you have ads for five other articles mixed in with the content? I don't believe these are ads, but just previews of the linked content.

ghuntley 4y ago

Some good feedback here! > Why is the first sentence, just the title repeated? An artefact of using Ghost defaults; I've moved the excerpt from the main article into the social media cards section to improve readability. > other articles mixed in with the content By referencing the other articles which are relevant to points made within the post becomes shorter. > The article is not that long The post is meant to be short because it's about a simple convention that I've adopted that has helped me. Maybe others will find value in the idea as well.

apeace 4y ago
I see what you’re going for, but I agree the article snippets are a poor design choice. I keep losing context while trying to read the article. The article blocks feel like section breaks, but they’re not. There are already links in the paragraph text, and those links are highlighted a different color. I can click on them to see the other article if I’m interested.
- niek_pas 4y ago
  I’m inclined to agree. At first, I wasn’t sure if those blocks were ads or other articles on your own website; they interrupt the reading experience in an unpleasant way.
yesbabyyes 4y ago
Another hopefully helpful piece of feedback: "as per say" is incorrect. The correct spelling is Latin, "per se", meaning "in itself". It also doesn't make sense to preceed it with "as".
tylersmith 4y ago
FWIW I liked the way the other articles were linked. I opened most of them as I was reading and then went back to them after the main article.
heretogetout 4y ago
I'm reading it on a mobile browser and I strongly agree with apeace, the blocks interrupt the flow. Maybe it would be better if the images weren't in each block, or maybe if the images weren't the same size as the image above the article text. All told each block is more than half the height of my screen and each paragraph is a bit less than half the height so it feels like I'm reading the first paragraph of several distinct articles (like an RSS feed?).

michaelmior 4y ago

> Why do you have ads for five other articles mixed in with the content? I don't believe these are ads, but just previews of the linked content.