I've always joked that some people run a marathon and some people scroll a marathon.
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is also standard journalism practice, and I use it all the time as a somewhat heuristic for news article credibility. Journalists are taught to put the most important details at the head of an article, and the least important at the end. This is tradition from print newspapers, where your article would be cut if the editor didn't have enough space. Sometimes only the first paragraph would make it into print, so…
> Journalists are taught to put the most important details at the head of an article In online journalism practice many do the exact opposite. They make you read paragraph after paragraph of speculations and bullshit before elaborating/explaining their click bait headline. Anything to make you stay and scroll so their ads get more screen time.
SEO also has encouraged this.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is also standard journalism practice, and I use it all the time as a somewhat heuristic for news article credibility. Journalists are taught to put the most important details at the head of an article, and the least important at the end. This is tradition from print newspapers, where your article would be cut if the editor didn't have enough space. Sometimes only the first paragraph would make it into print, so…
I wonder about the national differences. Hungarian news portals do as you said, jump straight in, lay out the overall idea, then go into details. Even for long form articles. German news on the other hand, especially long form, starts from a very personal tone, sets up an emotional texture, introduces a person by name and makes them likable etc. till finally in the middle they get to the matter. It's really frustrati…
The German articles you're describing sound more like long-form journalism. I think their style differs heavily from short news reports.
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#54I will log this as the first appearance (to me) of the "light mode also available" pendulum swing! See you all in a year!
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#55How long until web sites start offering Frequent Scroller Miles?
Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder about the national differences. Hungarian news portals do as you said, jump straight in, lay out the overall idea, then go into details. Even for long form articles. German news on the other hand, especially long form, starts from a very personal tone, sets up an emotional texture, introduces a person by name and makes them likable etc. till finally in the middle they get to the matter. It's really frustrati…
The German articles you're describing sound more like long-form journalism. I think their style differs heavily from short news reports.
It's not simply a function of the genre. I find that Hungarian investigative journalism articles tend to start with matter of fact things, like "we have uncovered the XYZ. As you may know, politician XYs connections came under scrutiny recently. We met an informer who..." While the German equivalem would start "we are sitting in a café just outside the Cathedral, as the cars wizz by on a rainy Tuesday. The documents are all prepared in a big red folder and Herr Schmidt looks at us perhaps a bit anxiously."
I'm not a writer, but that's the jist. They are often the same length, but German articles are much more pondering, feeling, moralizing, moody and focuses on personalities and making the reader be part of the story, like a novel.
In Hungary this is regarded more as beating around the bush. Just give us the facts and the actual story, like how the guy did his fraud etc, not the story of the journalist uncovering it etc. It's obviously not as extreme as I wrote above but strikingly noticeable.
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#57I was once in a seminar led by one of the world's pre-eminent primate researchers who explained that, without any irony or humor, he refused to scroll when reading emails--Anything important should be immediately visible.
end user screen real estate is a function of viewable vertical resolution of the email client.
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#58I scroll for light-years because of my logitech mx master 2s which has a ball bearing on the wheel so it can go flying.
With a high refresh monitor it's just fun to scroll around!
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#59Any firefox equivalent?
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#60A long time ago when I used to spend almost all my day in front of a computer, I wrote a program that would measure the physical distance my mouse cursor had moved thinking surely it must be several hundred meters a day. In fact it was only about 30 metres per day. I imagine to scroll a mile would take several months for the average web user.
It also depends on the type of user you are, for someone like me who does almost everything with a keyboard it would be pretty minimal, but for say a fps gamer I'd say it would be pretty high