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I find irrelevant gifs embedded in a blog post like this make the entire article unreadable. It's distracting and annoying.
by grantcox 10y ago
I find irrelevant gifs embedded in a blog post like this make the entire article unreadable. It's distracting and annoying.
- andyfleming 10y ago3 images is not unreasonable for an article, but I do agree they felt a bit irrelevant.
- conceit 10y agoIt's supposed to be distracting, but moodlifting, seeing the post exposes essentially negative oppoinions. Of course they are devoid of content.
- tjbiddle 10y agoI agree. A lot of times I'm just perusing HN for a few minutes as a break; I'm not looking for heavy reading. Setting up the content like this gives me a quick little chuckle in-between paragraphs and I move to the next. Rather than oh god this is too long - next link.
- imtringued 10y agoI've spent an hour reading a 20,000 word article. Don't go down the same path I did!
- elktea 10y agoCheck out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/ so you can pause all gifs on pages like this.
- lorenzhs 10y agoEspecially on a portrait screen (great for reading!) where you can't really scroll away from them.
- zelos 10y agoAgreed. I find I have to scroll them out of view to be able to read the text.
- addicted 10y agoWas about to post the exact same thing. I really want to read the article but it's a struggle with the gifs
- labrador 10y agoHere, have a bookmarklet I wrote to hide them so I could read articles like this: javascript:(function (){var x = document.getElementsByTagName("img");for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++){x[i].setAttribute("src","");}}());