I realize this is off topic, so please forgive the following rant. I'm not sure if it's out of principle or just stubbornness, but it's gotten to the point where every time I read an article that is paginated (most likely only because whoever runs the website wants more page views), I refuse to continue to the next page and end up reading only a fraction of the article.
My attitude towards pagination wasn't always this way. Over time, however, it's just annoyed me more and more. When I get to the bottom of a page as I'm reading an article and see that I'm going to have to click on these tiny numbers multiple times, wait for a new page to load each time, all while interrupting my train of thought, I get so annoyed that I immediately say "NOPE!" and hit the back button, no matter how good the article is.
And out of principle, I'm not installing any 3rd party software (like readability, etc.) to handle this for me. I shouldn't have to. Site owners who run articles need to find better ways to get page views, ways that aren't inconveniencing everyone using their site. Some might say "well that's just how it is!"... and I say only if you allow it to be.
So as a bit of a followup to this rant, if you submit articles like this to HN and there's a printer friendly version (or even a "view all" version), please submit that URL instead.
I have the same feeling, the most annoying thing is that i expect a specific amount of text.
When i see the scrollbar, i think this will take 2 minutes and the topic OS/2 is worth 2 minutes of time, but not 20 minutes. I feel cheated because i don't want to read it all and the first part was somewhat useless because i didn't get the whole story.
Readability didn't work for me on this page anyway. Very frustrating that content producers do this and provide no way to view the whole article in a single click.
As far as first world problems go, this one is really annoying. Especially if you send an article to the Kindle and don't notice that you only got a part of it. After a few times, I learnt to view and check first but it really kills the flow.
I have to admit... I did have a "First world problem" meme image in my head as I posted this and thought it might not be an appropriate complaint to raise on HN.
My attitude towards pagination wasn't always this way. Over time, however, it's just annoyed me more and more. When I get to the bottom of a page as I'm reading an article and see that I'm going to have to click on these tiny numbers multiple times, wait for a new page to load each time, all while interrupting my train of thought, I get so annoyed that I immediately say "NOPE!" and hit the back button, no matter how good the article is.
And out of principle, I'm not installing any 3rd party software (like readability, etc.) to handle this for me. I shouldn't have to. Site owners who run articles need to find better ways to get page views, ways that aren't inconveniencing everyone using their site. Some might say "well that's just how it is!"... and I say only if you allow it to be.
So as a bit of a followup to this rant, if you submit articles like this to HN and there's a printer friendly version (or even a "view all" version), please submit that URL instead.