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Did it force you as well to horizontally scroll slightly (iOS Safari)?
Yeah, but that is to be expected.
I wouldn’t expect a major publisher to push a page that requires continual back-and-forth microscrolling. Maybe a small blogger gets a pass (I mean obviously they do! they owe me nothing!).
But curious the reasoning behind your expectation in this case. Might be technical, social, etc.
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For many years I've used Pocket to give myself permission to get back to work.
Me too! I kind of wish I didn't know it was shutting down, and they just replaced the button with something that saves it to /dev/null without ever telling me.
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But you're describing the engagement cage, while I'm just pointing that you need to be careful not to escape from it just to get trapped inside the comfort cage.
Is there a rigorous definition of "engagement cage" or is the term just HN-tuned engagement bait? (: Fundamentally content discovery is always an explore-exploit loop. What you tune the loop with is what makes it useful for any given purpose.
Is it? Or only when you do it for profit?
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Is there a rigorous definition of "engagement cage" or is the term just HN-tuned engagement bait? (: Fundamentally content discovery is always an explore-exploit loop. What you tune the loop with is what makes it useful for any given purpose.
> Fundamentally content discovery is always an explore-exploit loop Is it? Or only when you do it for profit?
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Me too! I kind of wish I didn't know it was shutting down, and they just replaced the button with something that saves it to /dev/null without ever telling me.
Wallabag.it did a good job of importing my links. I think I singed up for $4 per month.
I’ve been really interested in stuff like this recently. Not just Pocket saves but also meta analysis of ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude chat history. I’ve been using an ultra-personalized RSS summary script and what I’ve discovered is that the RSS feeds that have the most items that are actually relevant to me are very different from what I actually read casually. What I’m going to try next is to develop a generative “world m…
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"Concern troll" is usually just at term that people who want zero pushback lob at people who don't agree with them 100% of the time.
Explain this a bit. I'm interested, but I don't fully understand how you mean this.