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I came to the comments expecting more pushback but I'm surprised. What happened to the simplicity of reading articles without status indicators, link popups, no

I came to the comments expecting more pushback but I'm surprised. What happened to the simplicity of reading articles without status indicators, link popups, notes, conversations, ...? OK, table of contents, you're cool.

reportgunner 2y ago
Also 0 mentions of reader mode.
- carimura 2y ago
  ah yes reader mode, undoing "loved" features since 2010!
- emilamlom 2y ago
  The author's focus is on static-generated sites, so reader mode isn't super relevant since they don't have a bunch of junk to clean up in the first place.
- BiteCode_dev 2y ago
  It's embedded in the browser now.
necrotic_comp 2y ago
There's some of these that I think are overkill, sure, but I like the simplicity of some of them - sidenotes, progress bar, etc. Just little things that give you that much more information about what's going on. Gwern's page, to me, is too much. My personal favorite mixture of style and implementation of these features is jefftk.com - simple, fast, but gives a ton of information in an unobtrusive way.
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JadeNB 2y ago
> OK, table of contents, you're cool. I also vote for turning plausible link targets into links, or at least giving them IDs so that they can be linked without cruft; and, ever so much, especially for posts in a group that are not consecutive, for links to the previous and next post in the group. I've seen some blogs that do backlinks but not forward links, which is very frustrating when they say something like "I'll finish discussing this topic in a further post when I have a chance" in a 2013 post, and now there's 11 years of archives to go through to find out whether they ever did ….
marcosdumay 2y ago
Those things are content. If it's not the kind of content you want to put on your site, well, don't. But they are they are there to inform you of something. (Well, except for the link preview. Link preview is not good. At all.)

reportgunner 2y ago

Also 0 mentions of reader mode.

carimura 2y ago
ah yes reader mode, undoing "loved" features since 2010!
emilamlom 2y ago
The author's focus is on static-generated sites, so reader mode isn't super relevant since they don't have a bunch of junk to clean up in the first place.
BiteCode_dev 2y ago
It's embedded in the browser now.

necrotic_comp 2y ago

There's some of these that I think are overkill, sure, but I like the simplicity of some of them - sidenotes, progress bar, etc. Just little things that give you that much more information about what's going on. Gwern's page, to me, is too much. My personal favorite mixture of style and implementation of these features is jefftk.com - simple, fast, but gives a ton of information in an unobtrusive way.

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JadeNB 2y ago

> OK, table of contents, you're cool. I also vote for turning plausible link targets into links, or at least giving them IDs so that they can be linked without cruft; and, ever so much, especially for posts in a group that are not consecutive, for links to the previous and next post in the group. I've seen some blogs that do backlinks but not forward links, which is very frustrating when they say something like "I'll finish discussing this topic in a further post when I have a chance" in a 2013 post, and now there's 11 years of archives to go through to find out whether they ever did ….

marcosdumay 2y ago

Those things are content. If it's not the kind of content you want to put on your site, well, don't. But they are they are there to inform you of something. (Well, except for the link preview. Link preview is not good. At all.)