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Maybe off topic, but it's weird to see a post about flow and distraction start with a completely unrelated splash image as many posts do these days. Are there
by imjonse 4y ago
Maybe off topic, but it's weird to see a post about flow and distraction start with a completely unrelated splash image as many posts do these days.
Are there studies linking this with better recall/comprehension or is it SEO related/purely aesthetic/trendy? It makes the posts signal 'I care about this' a bit more than your old school livejournal text only content, but I suspect in the vast majority of the cases it correlates with superficial and weak content.
- jzwinck 4y agoThe photo of a mountain biker is not unrelated, you just aren't aware of how it's related. Flow is a term used often in mountain biking, and in a similar way to programming and other pursuits. Garmin even have a metric for it: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/garmin-technology/cycling-science/mtb-dynamics/flow/ https://www.garmin.com/en-US/garmin-technology/cycling-scien...
- imjonse 4y agoI didn't know about flow being a term in biking, TIL thanks. However, my opinion on vaguely related splash images before blog posts being indicative of superficial content where SEO is sought after more than sharing original or useful info is unchanged. This is solely based on my own experience reading various blogs, hence my initial question regarding what is at the heart of this trend if not simply SEO.