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HN best practice - link to the non-paginated "View All" page if available: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 http://www.wired.com/

HN best practice - link to the non-paginated "View All" page if available: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...

Cieplak 15y ago
Thank you, I will do this in the future.
- Joakal 15y ago
  Some websites don't offer this explicitly but they have a print button feature which does the same thing.
  - tedunangst 15y ago
    Which is annoying as fuck when you link to it, because then it causes the print dialog to pop up on my computer.
nl 15y ago
I strongly disagree with this. Wired's articles are reasonably paged, and the complete article is very long. On many devices (eg phones) long pages don't always render well. Additionally, a publication like Wired deserves the page views for the good article. It is different for publications that only have a paragraph per page. TL;dr: there is no HN best practice.
- javert 15y ago
  If a site doesn't want to allow people to "view on one page," they can disable that feature. I think going through multiple pages is a huge PITA, even in the case of Wired. And I think your "many devices" point is probably too much of a corner case to matter.
  - nl 15y ago
    I think your "many devices" point is probably too much of a corner case to matter Wait.. what? Mobile devices aren't important?
  - obtu 15y ago
    > If a site doesn't want to allow people to "view on one page," they can disable that feature. That's not something I'd want to encourage. Whenever the pagination isn't excessive, I'd link to the permalink the site gives, and let users fetch the full article if they so wish.
tokenadult 15y ago
HN best practice is to link to the canonical URL for each article, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3571353 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3571353 and let the user's user agent decide what pagination view to display and how. That often happens automatically on well designed websites. That also helps the Hacker News duplicate submission detector work in its intended way.

Cieplak 15y ago

Thank you, I will do this in the future.

Joakal 15y ago
Some websites don't offer this explicitly but they have a print button feature which does the same thing.
- tedunangst 15y ago
  Which is annoying as fuck when you link to it, because then it causes the print dialog to pop up on my computer.

nl 15y ago

I strongly disagree with this. Wired's articles are reasonably paged, and the complete article is very long. On many devices (eg phones) long pages don't always render well. Additionally, a publication like Wired deserves the page views for the good article. It is different for publications that only have a paragraph per page. TL;dr: there is no HN best practice.

javert 15y ago
If a site doesn't want to allow people to "view on one page," they can disable that feature. I think going through multiple pages is a huge PITA, even in the case of Wired. And I think your "many devices" point is probably too much of a corner case to matter.
- nl 15y ago
  I think your "many devices" point is probably too much of a corner case to matter Wait.. what? Mobile devices aren't important?
- obtu 15y ago
  > If a site doesn't want to allow people to "view on one page," they can disable that feature. That's not something I'd want to encourage. Whenever the pagination isn't excessive, I'd link to the permalink the site gives, and let users fetch the full article if they so wish.

tokenadult 15y ago

HN best practice is to link to the canonical URL for each article, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3571353 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3571353 and let the user's user agent decide what pagination view to display and how. That often happens automatically on well designed websites. That also helps the Hacker News duplicate submission detector work in its intended way.