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Alternative readable rendering: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii
by pamcake 5mo ago
Alternative readable rendering: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii
- trelbutate 5mo agoYeah, scroll fade might be useful sometimes but most of the time it's just annoying. https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/ https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/
- RadiozRadioz 5mo agoWhat are the times in which it is useful? If those are referenced in the linked article, I'll be honest I didn't read it. That website succeeds whole handedly in its job of being too annoying to read.
- cyanydeez 5mo agoim sure theres a class of people who gauge their willingness to read based on the length of scroll.
- adrithmetiqa 5mo agoI am reaching for “reader mode” in my browsers all the time as they cut through these design choices that don’t agree within my eyes It really helps to focus in the content rather than the fluff.
- duskdozer 5mo agoI should probably be doing this instead of fruitlessly expanding my blocklist. I'm frustrated that extensions don't work in reader view though.
- trelbutate 5mo agoTo be honest I don't know of any, I just didn't want to be outright dismissive of it. If you just use it for a header to have some kind of small animation that grabs the reader's attention I guess it's fine. Just don't use it for the main text body.
- chneu 5mo agoSome news articles work well with a long scroll. Usually to progress through the "time" of the article. But yeah most of the time it's just annoying.
- duskdozer 5mo agoFortunately my "defenses" worked on this one, though CSS only doesn't seem to have been enough. I don't care if they want to make the user feel like they're living in a blingee gif by default, I just desperately want pages to respect prefers-reduced-motion
- Freak_NL 5mo agoWait, why isn't that the article instead? Who actually wants this fade-scroll-thing? It detracts from the sensible content.
- officialchicken 5mo agoCSS always counters the conceptual and philosophical use of hypertext.
- pratyahava 5mo agoeven this "ascii" (i expected raw text but still got html+css) was hardly readable for me, had to reach to the reader view, finally readable, ohh... looks much like ai-generated, why did i spend so much time jumping over obstacles...
- cryo32 5mo agoThe length and rambling nature of it was a clear AI indicator. This is unfortunately the problem with the Boring Internet. It's subject to the common denominator which is shite. And LLMs generate a lot of that.
- pimlottc 5mo agoColor contrast in the text version isn’t great either
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