The village and the girl
bbc.co.uk
The village and the girl
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Re: The village and the girl
#2I was going to read the article, but all the Verge-tastic CSS is too distracting.
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#3Why do they feel the need to have stories with the scrolley page css of doom? I want to read the text, maybe with a few intersparsed pictures ... please bring back sane reading format of websites.
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#4I was going to read the article, but all the Verge-tastic CSS is too distracting.
Having CSS disabled doesn't help unless you go through the effort of removing images as well, as they are repeated twice (and sometimes 3 times). The paragraph structuring is also terrible.
Re: The village and the girl
#5A living advertisement for browser extensions like Readability, Clearly, etc. that actually allow you to read articles like this.
Re: The village and the girl
#6I was going to read the article, but all the Verge-tastic CSS is too distracting.
Having CSS disabled doesn't help unless you go through the effort of removing images as well, as they are repeated twice (and sometimes 3 times). The paragraph structuring is also terrible.
Firefox's reading mode is also confused.
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#7A living advertisement for browser extensions like Readability, Clearly, etc. that actually allow you to read articles like this.
Or just disable Javascript.
Everyone's trying to outdo "What is Code" and so we'll be dealing with this kind of journalistic showmanship for the next few months.
Edit: The article is very well written and truly touching. It feels like reading The Good Earth all over again. In another way, it reads like a story about American Settlers from the 1800s. It's sad to hear about people abiding solely through subsistence farming, but it's heartening to hear they're surviving.
And from the comfort of an office building, I feel obligated to reflect on my relative privileges. They are beyond realistic counting. This imbalance fills me with unresolved guilt.
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#8Wow, I really hope that brick-scroll doesn't catch on.
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#9These "immersive" stories will disappear once the realization that the ROI on them doesn't work. Expensive to create, but no income generated because no-one reads them because they are annoying.
The only companies left using them will be those with no concern about ROI such as here; the state-funded BBC.
I'm sure it looks good on the designer's CV though. Who cares about the people who have to actually read the content...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having CSS disabled doesn't help unless you go through the effort of removing images as well, as they are repeated twice (and sometimes 3 times). The paragraph structuring is also terrible.
Firefox's reading mode is also confused.
For some reason Firefox reading mode starts about half way down the article.