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Read Something Wonderful
- nilirl 10mo agoBeautiful UI. What's the criteria for pieces promoted?
- mentalfist 10mo agoAt a quick glance, the main criteria seems for it to be libertarian and anti-socialism.
- snorbleck 10mo agonot quite. it's random selections every visit to the site.
- layman51 10mo agoSame here. I'm really curious about this too. What do they mean by "wonderful"? I suppose some of the pieces here might not be very well-known or popular, but they are inspiring, or maybe they are a good resource for learning something. All I can see is they are maybe associated with a read-later app?
- photios 10mo agoWondering about that too. What are the "wonderfullness" criteria? For example, the first article I clicked on: https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-social-norms/ https://juliagalef.com/2017/08/23/unpopular-ideas-about-soci... has some pretty vile stuff: > Non-offending pedophiles should be more widely accepted by society. It’s unfair to ostracize someone for a desire they were born with, and integrating them into society makes them less likely to cause harm.
- sambapa 10mo agoWhats vile about that?
- efilife 10mo agoThe truth
- IAmBroom 10mo agoAmorality. There's no evidence that anyone is born with particular sexual deviations. It attempts to simultaneously absolve and normalize attitudes that ideate rape of children, so long as they don't act on it. That's a pretty thin and permeable line to draw.
- efilife 10mo agowere you born with an attraction to women or is there no evidence to support it?
- egypturnash 10mo agoI am amazed at this page's CSS. The body text is small so I hit command-+ to make it bigger... and it gets smaller instead. Reset and hit command--... and it also gets smaller. And reader mode's broken.
- crooked-v 10mo agoIt's because the "body text" is actually a screenshot of text, for some bizarre reason.
- egypturnash 10mo agohahaha wtf
- wormpilled 10mo ago[flagged]
- manuelmoreale 10mo agoI’m not sure why people are downvoting you. The site is a collection of links to other written pieces posted on other sites. To make it visually interesting they decided to add screenshots for each entry which is an entirely reasonable thing to do. It’s what every single gallery site does. What would a better alternative be? Adding iframes?
- Timwi 10mo agoI'm downvoting because of the insulting addendum.
- est 10mo agowhat am I looking at? Cards of text that I have to click to further read?
- listic 10mo agoApparently, yes. Apparently, they present a curated set of texts.
- curtisblaine 10mo agoIt's not a bad concept. Seeing the first paragraphs of an article helps me decide quickly if I want to invest time on it or not. I would like to do that with books, if there was a reliable way to get the first page of a large number of them.
- ThrowawayTestr 10mo agoA curated list of links, yes. These have been around since the Internet was created.
- yd4hn 10mo agoIf this collection of articles would get updated in the future, I hope there is a rss feed for it. But it seems that the site is just a promotion for this Matter app...
- nicbou 10mo agoI have been following that website a while. The curation is great, but the UI is annoying. I can’t easily right click or long press to share with Instapaper. I can’t scroll past the ones I have already seen. A list of links would be much better.
- lessconfused 10mo agoI thought so too, I made a simpler version of this at readsomethingwonderfulmoreeasily.netlify.app
- vaylian 10mo agoI recognize many of these, because I've found them through hacker news before. There's probably a lot more treasures on that list.
- greenfields3 10mo agoSorry but two of the top 3 articles were “Friday Night Meatballs: How to Change Tour Life with Pasta”, “The Real Heroes are Dead” and “Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct”. None of those are wonderful to me.
- peterlada 10mo agoThis needs a subscribe or RSS feed
- gcr 10mo agoLinks to some articles are broken, eg. https://www.mikkelaaland.com/sweat-bathing-and-the-body.html https://www.mikkelaaland.com/sweat-bathing-and-the-body.html gives a cert error on iOS
- nuancebydefault 10mo agoFeyman at his finest: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf