Show HN: A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See
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#2Can there be a UI that lets readers agree/desagree on Cookies once and forever so that the popup is not shown again, and to block 'please disable adblock' popups? An, also, firmly let the website know that the user wants to stay in the mobile browser and doesn't wish to download another app just to read a 1000 words article?
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#3After the new media query 'prefers-color-scheme: dark' has landed, we now need 'prefers-content: tldr' as well.
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#4Seems like a good idea, but I find it hard to correlate between low-detail and high-detail versions.
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#5Seems like documentation has already been able to handle this for centuries, via table of contents, overviews, introductions, detail sections etc, and readers have handled that fine.
Instead of adding work to the authors, simply use the semantic markup...or even let the reader do so.
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#6I worked for a company where we gave you two modes to view things (a A/V version with bullet points, and a text transcript version). Its cool in concept. BUT, once you get into this you're doubling the amount of work as an author for very little gain (unless the modes are "instruction-ally purposeful" in some way). In addition, if you do any multi-lingual work (we did), you've doubled your translation cost per language as well.
Its also hard to validate the perspectives of your users. One TLDR user isn't the same as another - one wants 2-3 paragraphs another wants three bullets. You can put in that work here, but... its work. And you're not guaranteeing anyone ever sees the bulk of your long-form to which you probably want them to see to make a lasting connection and because you put the effort in to generate.
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#7I've wanted to see something like this for a long time. IMHO the missing pieces are...
1. the ability to identify which components of a summary you would prefer to see expanded.
2. for expansions to be more clearly highlighted
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#8Seems like a good idea, but I find it hard to correlate between low-detail and high-detail versions.
yeah, I thought this was going to be like, if I click on a paragraph, it expands into several paragraphs worth of detail.
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#9Just FYI, might be interested in Ted Nelson's old idea of StretchText. It was never really implemented, to the best of my knowledge.
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#10Can there be a UI that lets readers agree/desagree on Cookies once and forever so that the popup is not shown again, and to block 'please disable adblock' popups? An, also, firmly let the website know that the user wants to stay in the mobile browser and doesn't wish to download another app just to read a 1000 words article?
Yup, it’s called an adblocker.