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I love pages like this because this is how the internet used to be. weirder.

5h 12y ago
s/used/should/ It's nice to not "read more after the jump" or "below the fold", no over-pagination, no 100% width 400px deep semi-relevant banner image, no pull quotes in 30px ultra-bold fonts floated over to the sides, no "you may also be interested in" and no asinine comments, .. oh, wait!
- w0ts0n 12y ago
  I disagree. This is way to much information for me to digest. I think a happy medium is nice. Enough information on the screen to get the point across but not too little that I have to click everything to find out what I need.
  - 5h 12y ago
    Of course I'm exaggerating, and I agree this page isn't particularly friendly but nor is it intended to be, its a reference to be searched rather than a piece of prose to be read. A lot of pages I find frustrating are often trying to spin a narrative around what amounts to reference material, or vice-versa & results are often framed with the tropes I mentioned above.
    - dllthomas 12y ago
      It seems like those could even be two different views into the same material, potentially.
  - deleted 12y ago
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  - rbonvall 12y ago
    As opposed to the modern trend where there is too much non-information to digest.
- thesteamboat 12y ago
  s/used/used to/
eob 12y ago
What do you mean by weird? The extremely high content-to-style ratio compared to a lot of pages today?
- albemuth 12y ago
  I don't know, if this were a "Top 10 vim tips, number 6 blew my mind" style article I feel I'd engage with it more. Also, show only one tip at a time with pagination so I can learn one thing at a time.
- mariodiana 12y ago
  I don't know what the other guy means by weird, but I mean the extremely high your-brain-has-to-operate-like-a-combined-parser-and-compiler to make any sense of that kind of thing. You're telling me you're not dulled into a stupor by trying to read that?
robert_nsu 12y ago
Wouldn't you like to know how to do all of this in five easy steps? /s
- dodo53 12y ago
  ...That Emacs Users Don't Want You To Know!
null_ptr 12y ago
If you click on "Tips Home" it gets even weirder. Like the url for "Technical tips" being "make-money-online-tips/", and check the Blogroll.

5h 12y ago

s/used/should/ It's nice to not "read more after the jump" or "below the fold", no over-pagination, no 100% width 400px deep semi-relevant banner image, no pull quotes in 30px ultra-bold fonts floated over to the sides, no "you may also be interested in" and no asinine comments, .. oh, wait!

w0ts0n 12y ago
I disagree. This is way to much information for me to digest. I think a happy medium is nice. Enough information on the screen to get the point across but not too little that I have to click everything to find out what I need.
- 5h 12y ago
  Of course I'm exaggerating, and I agree this page isn't particularly friendly but nor is it intended to be, its a reference to be searched rather than a piece of prose to be read. A lot of pages I find frustrating are often trying to spin a narrative around what amounts to reference material, or vice-versa & results are often framed with the tropes I mentioned above.
  - dllthomas 12y ago
    It seems like those could even be two different views into the same material, potentially.
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]
- rbonvall 12y ago
  As opposed to the modern trend where there is too much non-information to digest.
thesteamboat 12y ago
s/used/used to/

eob 12y ago

What do you mean by weird? The extremely high content-to-style ratio compared to a lot of pages today?

albemuth 12y ago
I don't know, if this were a "Top 10 vim tips, number 6 blew my mind" style article I feel I'd engage with it more. Also, show only one tip at a time with pagination so I can learn one thing at a time.
mariodiana 12y ago
I don't know what the other guy means by weird, but I mean the extremely high your-brain-has-to-operate-like-a-combined-parser-and-compiler to make any sense of that kind of thing. You're telling me you're not dulled into a stupor by trying to read that?

robert_nsu 12y ago

Wouldn't you like to know how to do all of this in five easy steps? /s

dodo53 12y ago
...That Emacs Users Don't Want You To Know!

null_ptr 12y ago

If you click on "Tips Home" it gets even weirder. Like the url for "Technical tips" being "make-money-online-tips/", and check the Blogroll.