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Off topic: Why is everything posted here all of a sudden begging for my email? It feels like every article I click after reading few sentences I get a box beggi
by nextlevelwizard 4y ago
Off topic: Why is everything posted here all of a sudden begging for my email? It feels like every article I click after reading few sentences I get a box begging to sign up for some stupid ass mailing list as if after spending 10 seconds reading their words I had become a fan and absolutely needed more of their bullshit in my life.
If I am interested in hearing more about you, I will find a way to subscribe to your shit otherwise all you manage to do is to get me frustrated and leave.
This time I couldn't even get to reading, I opened the article and had to answer an IM. By the time I got back I was treated with full screen "Type your email to subscribe" box that couldn't even be dismissed without clicking small "Let me read first" link.
Why is simple blog design such ass these days? Why can't I just read the content without being bombarded with pop ups, pop overs, and other crap that has nothing to do with the actual content?
- quickthrower2 4y agoWelcome to substack! “But it is better than medium!”
- nine_k 4y agoHave you tried paying? Publishers need food, too. So do some authors who write in a (semi)professional capacity and spend significant time writing.
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoWhat are you on? Are you implying that these people are collecting emails to sell them? If your content is worth money you will make money, but most content is definitely not worth even my time.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoHave JavaScript off by default in uBlock. Substack is quite readable without JS; and no popups.
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoI used to run NoScript back in the day, but way too many websites are just beyond broken without JS. I'm just not going to bother reading bad sites, I am not losing anything of value.