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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 23:16:09 JST Rich Felker

   Most hated web design antipattern:

   [Big header]
   [First 100 words of the actual article, product info, whatever, graying out in the last couple lines/words]
   READ MORE! (clickable but tiny and hard to click on touch)
   [Hundreds of chumboxes, alternate product ads, reviews, AI summarizes of reviews, other footer garbage]

   The actual page content is literally the only thing collapsed/hidden and hard to access.

   Who is teaching this???? 🤦 🤬

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 23:16:09 JST Rich Felker

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     I have one non-malicious theory for where the practice is coming from:

     Designers see their pretty layout as the product, rather than as a tool for delivering the product (actual informational page content) effectively.

     The main article, product info, whatever, is a very freeform, unknown size, "untrusted input" to their beautiful design, and they don't want it messing that up.

     So they design a fixed size space for it where their layout looks exactly the way they want. 🤦

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 23:17:03 JST Rich Felker

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     BTW Google created this.

     They had the option, before this shit started, to make text not initially visible not get indexed.

     They had the option to weigh relevance down by what % of the page content was actually the relevant text vs other junk.

     They didn't and now we have this.

     A new search engine hardly even has the option because everything is already shit and just not finding what the user is looking for at all because it adapted to make Google happy is not useful.. 🤬

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