4 ms·
Good article but whats the reason for all the syntetic meaningless images?
by _visgean 4y ago
Good article but whats the reason for all the syntetic meaningless images?
- emschwartz 4y agoHonestly, I thought they'd help illustrate the ideas. But maybe not! Thanks for the feedback :)
- _visgean 4y agoI think for some of it you could be nide to do diagrams, e.g. something like this: https://rufflewind.com/2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow https://rufflewind.com/2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow
- illiarian 4y agoThere are too many for the amount of text. So you have two paragraphs, and then an image the size of five paragraphs. Then two more paragraphs, and another 5-paragraph image. They are also somewhat inconsistent as to where they appear. You can remove all but one or two, and the article won't be any worse :)
- emschwartz 4y agoDone :)
- richardwhiuk 4y agoI'm not sure what you think you've fixed, but the images are still way too large from my perspective. Some of your images don't even fit on a single screen at once.
- emschwartz 4y agoJust updated that as well. Now they're smaller
- illiarian 4y agoI love it!
- carlmr 4y agoI for one liked the illustrations, just think they were a bit large compared to the text. Maybe fewer would be good, but I liked the Rust-crab theme. The balloon one is a bit busy and I didn't find it to have much explanatory value in that context.
- emschwartz 4y agoI removed the last two. Thanks for the feedback :) Update: also made them smaller.
- marktangotango 4y agoThis is an interesting phenomenon, how some people focus on the design of the page rather than the content. We see it quite regularly on HN related to blog post such as this. One wonders if the sibling commentors here have ever heard of "bike shedding"? I personally appreciate the content, so thanks for that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
- surteen 4y agoThat's probably a good indication that the design of the page was distracting.
- slingnow 4y agoIf the design of the page is so bad that it makes the content hard to parse, it seems worth mentioning. Yes, bike shedding. People love to bring that up as a way to deflect criticism they disagree with.
- marktangotango 4y agoDisagree is too strong, more like disregard and find generally trivial and distracting.
- sowbug 4y agoPerhaps the set of complainers is largely contained within the set of ad-blocker users.
- Joeboy 4y agoIMO the images should be blue, and the number of them should be divisible by three. One of them should be of an otter. Edit: Aside from that, as a Rust neophyte I did like the content.
- pqb 4y agoI am sorry, but they made me quit the article without reading the content. However, I really liked all illustrations :)
- slingnow 4y agoI'm curious, can you explain how an image of some kind of crab plushy toy that takes up THE ENTIRE SCREEN ON A DESKTOP helps illustrate anything about immutable references? It is fully 2x larger than the previous text and I have to scroll multiple times to get to the remainder of the article. Is it that you used a child sharing their toy as a way to explain the concept, and you needed to remind us what a toy was?