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15 pages for this article seems quite excessive
by mcormier 14y ago
15 pages for this article seems quite excessive
- jpk 14y agoMildly OT, but... Agreed. Unfortunately, nearly every hardware review like this does that. I almost invariably skip to the last page to read the conclusion first, and only poke through the middle pages if I'm curious why the reviewer drew the conclusion they did. This one is particularly bad, though, because the pages aren't labeled, and there's no table of contents. Which makes "poke through the middle pages" for the purpose of finding a specific test related to the conclusion hard. We all know it's to bump up the number of page views and therefore ad revenue, but I wonder: For a review like this, how many ad impressions do you need to break even on the reviewer's time, hardware cost (if any), and other overhead? Is ridiculous pagination a necessary evil for these sorts of reviews to exist? Or is it solely to pad margins?
- lathamcity 14y agoThe text loads quickly enough, but the pictures really kill it. I clicked page 2 and got one line of text and a bunch of white, and decided to make that the extent of my user experience.