[tecoholic]

What’s happening in this site? The page loads and number starts going up from 47 and the it says “You fell behind reading this”. And I start scrolling and paras of text start floating up. I am really confused

[azornathogron]

If you scroll down slightly you get a low contrast button "○ PREFER STILLNESS? READ AS PLAIN TEXT →", which takes you to a plain text version with a rather patronising introduction that says "You chose the quiet version. No animations. No counters ticking up. Just words. That's a valid choice."

Edit: to be just slightly nicer about it: having a plain text version is great, that's a really good thing. But the "that's a valid choice" paragraph is unnecessary and just distracts from your actual article. If I pick the plain-text version it's because I want to just get straight to the point (other people may have other reasons), and I certainly don't need your validation.

[RandomTeaParty]

I totally missed that button... It using tiny font size doesn't help

[nusl]

Sounds like what an LLM would tell me

[Onavo]

I think it's supposed to simulate the RSS inbox count creating urgency.

[embedding-shape]

Hm, that was really unclear, I felt like there was a timer timing my reading, so I ended up closing it :/

[stabbles]

Try this: https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation/ascii

[trashb]

This is "modern web design", I personally prefer a more minimal style.

If you turn on your browser's "reader mode" the article is more readable.

[AndrewDucker]

Did you try reading the text?

[voidUpdate]

When I load the page, all the text I can see is "You fell behind while reading this". Not exactly helpful