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WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
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#22On a tangential note, there is r/disneyvacation/ that pokes fun aty the bad drawings on wikihow and recaptions them.
"WikiHow Image Macros" on Facebook does similar and is a constant source of entertainment for me and a few friends.
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#23> wikiHow instructed these freelancers on how “to create the most instructive visuals for every step of every article.”
Hopefully written and illustrated in genuine wikihow style
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#24Man, what is that headline font?
Its onezero-yellix-alt
From the Type Foundry from whence it came:
Yellix is a mono-linear geometrical sans-serif font family. It was designed in the time I fell in love with Paul Renner’s first sketch of Futura and I also explored stylistic sets, so I added a lot of strict and cold alternatives (“a, g, m, n, r, t, etc.”). I enjoyed having the possibility to create tensions between circular and square shapes. You will also find less geometrically based alternatives. Yellix has horizontal or vertical terminals and the circle forms are punched into the stems.
More here if you're interested: https://displaay.net/typeface/yellix/
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, if you saved that click you also got the wrong idea. I even proposed a better official title. Makes me wonder if you read my comment at all.
I know editorializing is against the rules but I love the current title, "WikiHow's bizarre art is created by an army of freelancers in the Philippines", it sounds so quaint and absurd.
You can love what you love. I prefer a factual title.
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#26I've never heard of the WikiHow site. It's one of a near-infinite number of engrish permutations that is never ranked in any of my searches or my parents' or my wife's. For a moment, I suspected I was missing out on something...nope.
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#27Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
Wasn't blocked.
Firefox 68,Mobile, ublock origin
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#28Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
Weirdly enough, I think it only does it if it knows you’ve been logged into Medium on your device before, but are currently logged out.
Probably because “analytics engineering reasons”—i.e. it wants to correlate the view with some account’s clickstream, and it really looks like that account should be yours, but it also knows that it’s been a while and so it might now be a guest, and so has logged you out temporarily. But it doesn’t just want to spawn a new temporary clickstream that they’ll have to re-correlate to your account later, because that’s costly to server resources in the O(N) case, and in 90% of cases, it still is you browsing.
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#29Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic blog posts.
The aggressive content gating and pop-ups are another Quora-esque introduction.
Just a case of being blinded by metrics. Adding an aggressive sign-up form might get you more emails and sign-ups, but it will also annoy away better quality users.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know editorializing is against the rules but I love the current title, "WikiHow's bizarre art is created by an army of freelancers in the Philippines", it sounds so quaint and absurd.
You can love what you love. I prefer a factual title.
I don't see how the current title isn't factual