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Maybe this is offtopic, but I really don't like the way Rap Genius does links. It makes it so I essentially have to click on each link twice to get to what it a

• teej 14y ago
  They're not links, they're text annotations. Rap Genius is a text annotation platform currently focused on rap lyrics. In this case most of the annotations happen to be a link + context, which is pretty rare.
  • tibbon 14y ago
    Yea, I got that... but in the context of a tech blog post, the interface just doesn't seem to make sense or at least in my head. Its a blog post, not rap lyrics.
    • teej 14y ago
      I think their hypothesis is something like all long-form text should/will be annotated. While I think it's important to dog-food, I agree that the execution in this case isn't great. The "links" really should just be links.
• vidarh 14y ago
  I liked it - most of them were annotations where the additional context provided let me stay on the page in most cases and still get most of the additional value.
• sequoia 14y ago
  Agreed, this is incredibly annoying and has tipped the scales for me to "not worth the effort." It's as tho facebook attempted put a technical blog post in a status update and only used @tags or something; the content does not fit the format. Basically it's breaking the web's "what happens when I click a link" contract; middle clicking should not open the same page in new tab, confusing me. Breaking that convention for a very specific purpose (annotating song lyrics) makes sense, but it's extremely misguided on a technical blog post.