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I like seeing what users are currently viewing the same page, but man the constant jostling of users coming and going made it hard to read the post.
by hamish-b 1y ago
I like seeing what users are currently viewing the same page, but man the constant jostling of users coming and going made it hard to read the post.
- lagniappe 1y agoIts the bottom 20px or so, with a lot of content above it. Move the window down slightly.
- _carbyau_ 1y agoThe article literally starts with: "Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks ..." I guess this is demonstrating another variant of that. Admittedly, not one I'd seen before so +1 for novelty even if -20 for distraction.
- promiseofbeans 1y agoIt's pretty fun seeing what countries people are from. If you hover, it tells your their city as well!
- cnnlives 1y agoMaybe if the background color on all pages was a heatmap of the current top line of the page, so that you could see where people were reading and how many were reading, it would be better? Also, what if it played slow and brooding music when fewer people were reading and epic action adventure music when many people were reading it? How about if the page mined bitcoin and the first person to enter a page made a percentage higher percentage of the next person’s bitcoin and less of the next one, like a multi-level marketing mining strategy?
- mathiaspoint 1y agoThat heatmap idea sounds really neat actually.
- HexDecOctBin 1y agoReminded me so much of a game called Chess Royale that I used to play, the avatars and the flags (screenshot [1]). It was really good too; and then Ubisoft being Ubisoft, they killed it even though the game had bots and could have been made single-player. [1]: https://game-guide.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Might-and-Magic-Chess-Royale2020-2-8-15-2-23.jpg https://game-guide.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Might-and-M...
- Kapura 1y agoi literally opened the developer console to delete that element from the page. no surprise somebody who has no idea how to make a readable website is getting bullied by a chatbot.
- JimDabell 1y agoI found Safari’s “hide distracting items” feature was necessary to finish the article.
- krackers 1y agoisn't this the page that used to have cursors everywhere in the background? I think the distracting design is some intentional running joke at this point
- consumer451 1y agoSame here. Right-click the page and choose Inspect (or Inspect Element). Click the Console tab, paste this code, and press Enter: document.getElementById("presence")?.remove(); If you want to know why this is happening in your brain, it's likely a prey/predator identification thing. I would like to think that being so distracted by this just means I have excellent survival instincts :) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0703913104 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0703913104 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_%28neuroscience%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_%28neuroscience%29
- theendisney 1y agoCan just right click remove node.
- consumer451 1y agoI thought my instructions would work universally, across all desktop browsers. I have also been known to overthink things.
- addandsubtract 1y agouBlock Origin also lets you "zap" elements away. No console fiddling required.
- YesBox 1y agoI tried uBlock's element zapper and ended up playing a furious game whac-a-mole :D
- seanlinehan 1y agoI have this little bookmarklet in my bookmarks bar that I use constantly. It removes all fixed or sticky elements on the page and re-enabled y-overflow if it was disabled: javascript: (function () {document.querySelectorAll("body *").forEach(function(node){["fixed","sticky"].includes(getComputedStyle(node).position)&&node.parentNode.removeChild(node)});var htmlNode=document.querySelector("html");htmlNode.style.overflow="visible",htmlNode.style["overflow-x"]="visible",htmlNode.style["overflow-y"]="visible";var bodyNode=document.querySelector("body");bodyNode.style.overflow="visible",bodyNode.style["overflow-x"]="visible",bodyNode.style["overflow-y"]="visible";var nodes=document.querySelectorAll('.tp-modal-open');for(i in nodes) {nodes[i].classList.remove('tp-modal-open');}}())
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- JimDabell 1y agoThey have been called “dickbars” before [0]. > Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling (174 comments) — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998091 [0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/06/27/mcdiarmid-sticky-headers https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/06/27/mcdiarmid-stick...
- zoom6628 1y agoHuge fan of killsticky and using it everywhere!
- jahsome 1y agoInatant tab close for me. So obnoxious. The idea is kinda cute, but the implementation is aggressive.
- airstrike 1y agoIt's hilarious but I literally can't click on their gh or patreon links because of it
- rf15 1y agonatural selection at work
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- throwaway290 1y agothat webmaster should ask himself, if it is so easy implement does it mean you SHOULD implement it? I just immediately closed the page.
- paulmooreparks 1y agoSame here. I don't have the time or patience to hack the page like the siblings comments suggest. There are more articles on the web than I will ever be able to consume in my lifetime, so I just close the tab and move on when the UX is aggressively bad.
- pwdisswordfishz 1y agoI wonder if it's GDPR-compliant.
- wiseowise 1y agoWhy wouldn’t it? It’s anonymous and he probably doesn’t store the data.
- akst 1y agoI ended up using safari remove distracting content, which seemed to work nicely.
- spacemadness 1y agoCertainly not built to help those with ADHD in mind.