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This must disappear

10 points by socialpopup 13y ago

With a habit of highlighting text while reading - this is by far the most irritating thing I've ever seen. I know I'm not alone.

doubt_me 13y ago
There is probably a chrome extension out there that can block this. Or even better a grease monkey script if anyone still uses that. To get grease monkey scripts on chrome search up black canvas and obviously userscripts.org
- 6435716 13y ago
  There is a Safari (Mac) extension for this called JSBlacklist as well. https://code.google.com/p/jsblacklist/downloads/list https://code.google.com/p/jsblacklist/downloads/list Just enter in the domain to block it. Up to you to find the domain though, if it's not in the default list.
michaelbuckbee 13y ago
Easily done, log out of Medium and the popup on selection will go away. I'm not quite sure what is so terrible about it as you can still do all of your normal selection actions with no modification and the whole purpose of the selection+popup is to facilitate further discussion of specific phrases within an article. And, while I know it's easy to hate on social media like Twitter, Medium is the new project by the founder of Twitter and you _have_ to have a Twitter account to sign up for it in any case.
- socialpopup 13y ago
  Sure, easily done. Problem is highlighting is slow. It ruins the way I (and many others) browse... I'd love to see stats on how many actually use this rubbish (annoyance).
headShrinker 13y ago
One of the ways I deal with being severely dyslexic is by highlighting each line of words as I read. For this reason alone, I can't stand contextual menus appearing when I draw a selection. On a completely separate note, people tweeting should be very comfortable with command-c command-v, and everyone else should be too.
- socialpopup 13y ago
  Nailed it! This is exactly what I'm talking about. I doubt even those who tweet use this widget. As useless as {'Share','Follow','Like','Digg'} As the title says, this must go away.
- MildlySerious 13y ago
  I'm not dyslexic and I still do this from time to time, mostly with long lines or small text. For editors this menu filled with text formatting tools might be a nice feature, but for users, especially with second class functionality, I'd consider it an anti-pattern.

This must disappear

10 points by socialpopup 13y ago

With a habit of highlighting text while reading - this is by far the most irritating thing I've ever seen. I know I'm not alone.

doubt_me 13y ago

There is probably a chrome extension out there that can block this. Or even better a grease monkey script if anyone still uses that. To get grease monkey scripts on chrome search up black canvas and obviously userscripts.org

6435716 13y ago
There is a Safari (Mac) extension for this called JSBlacklist as well. https://code.google.com/p/jsblacklist/downloads/list https://code.google.com/p/jsblacklist/downloads/list Just enter in the domain to block it. Up to you to find the domain though, if it's not in the default list.

michaelbuckbee 13y ago

Easily done, log out of Medium and the popup on selection will go away. I'm not quite sure what is so terrible about it as you can still do all of your normal selection actions with no modification and the whole purpose of the selection+popup is to facilitate further discussion of specific phrases within an article. And, while I know it's easy to hate on social media like Twitter, Medium is the new project by the founder of Twitter and you _have_ to have a Twitter account to sign up for it in any case.

socialpopup 13y ago
Sure, easily done. Problem is highlighting is slow. It ruins the way I (and many others) browse... I'd love to see stats on how many actually use this rubbish (annoyance).

headShrinker 13y ago

One of the ways I deal with being severely dyslexic is by highlighting each line of words as I read. For this reason alone, I can't stand contextual menus appearing when I draw a selection. On a completely separate note, people tweeting should be very comfortable with command-c command-v, and everyone else should be too.

socialpopup 13y ago
Nailed it! This is exactly what I'm talking about. I doubt even those who tweet use this widget. As useless as {'Share','Follow','Like','Digg'} As the title says, this must go away.
MildlySerious 13y ago
I'm not dyslexic and I still do this from time to time, mostly with long lines or small text. For editors this menu filled with text formatting tools might be a nice feature, but for users, especially with second class functionality, I'd consider it an anti-pattern.