Ask HN: What's the hardest part about reading articles online?

4 points by kokorikooo 11mo ago ↗ HN

I find it really boring to read article online but still once I come across one article I like I feel satisfied. Do you also have this problem, what's the hardest part about reading article online for you?

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curious_curios 11mo ago ↗

- Ads

- Paywalls

- Subscribe pop-ups

- Obvious AI slop

- Dead links

- Information already out of date

thinkingemote 11mo ago ↗

Hardest currently is reading AI assisted articles. Not slop, but good, assisted, even useful ones. The formatting, cadence, word choice, the bullet points, the lists, the use of that long dash. It's a smell and a pattern that is recognised. Its not human

What I like is story or witness or testimony. A person's own story about themselves where the topic is brought in and made relevant towards that. It's human.

pmdulaney 11mo ago ↗

Hardest for me is to not be able to scroll with j and k à la vim.