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I hate to be "that guy", but that website is incredibly annoying for what amounts to a few paragraphs of text. Not everything needs to be animated.

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I also hate to be "that guy" but this site is completely inaccessible with JavaScript disabled and lynx -dump doesn't dump the main text. That said if you would like to restore some sanity to your web browsing, you can pull up the Google cache for a lack of these supposed animations and based off what others in this thread are saying, fully retain proper scrolling and back button behavior.

Best part is that it's a Google service for stripping the inanity of another Google service. Enjoy.

Printer Friendly [1] is useful in sites like this.

It removes all formatting, making it easy to read (and print, save to PDF, etc). And if you're printing or saving, you can easily delete blocks of content (like photos, diagrams, etc).

Strongly recommended. You can use either a bookmarklet or install the browser extension.

[1] https://www.printfriendly.com/

edit: seems this site traps mouse scrolls, so you can't scroll the page when using PF. What a shitty implementation! It works well saving to PDF tho.

It has scroll but inside the content box. Does the scroll bar not show for you?

Hmm, I can see the scroll bars, but seems wheel mouse scroll only works in some pages. E.g., no scroll on NYT [1], but it works on Wikipedia [2].

Interestingly, the Chrome extension is a lot more stable than the bookmarklet. For example, the NYT page scrolls just fine using the Chrome extension (probably because changes the page, while the bookmarklet just creates an overlay on top of the existing page).

Well, still has my vote as one of the most useful extensions.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/personaltech/d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Chastain

Thanks for being "that guy": it is awful & even ublock can't filter the particular issues out since the nonsensical blogger theme is embeddded left and right in both inline and external scripts..etc.

This is a very popular Blogger theme. It might even be the default.

If anyone out there either is able to self-host their blog, or can afford a few bucks a month for it, I recommend Ghost (https://ghost.org). Example blog:

https://blog.ghost.org

Open source customizable markdown blog engine, with great themes by default. I feel like it doesn't get enough attention.

Seems to have no IPv6 support. I'd prefer to be able to access other peoples' blogs and have my own blog accessible at all times.

Send their Pro team a feature request. Either way you have the option to self-host it, which is why I'm promoting this here. If you want IPv6, it's super easy.

Hey! Ghost(Pro) is targeted mainly at business users who want a solid managed service, but there's absolutely no downside to self-hosting. We don't do any feature-gating, so you get the same software no matter where you want to run it. Easiest way to get up and running on your own env. is with Digital Ocean, who have a 1-click image: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

If you want to just test it out locally first, that's easy too - https://docs.ghost.org/docs/install-local TLDR: npm install ghost-cli -g && ghost install local

Since you're here I just want to say that I love the operation you guys run. Ghost is great, the pro service is great and the open source, transparent development of the engine itself as well as the company/foundation is fantastic.

You guys are up there with Gitlab as a model of how open source businesses should work.

I cant tell because it requires JS to even render the text.

It's visually an empty page here, too.

Not only does it require javascript. It requires javascript hosted on a separate domain.

It's not wrong to be that guy, if the page design is the top discussion topic then the design has failed and gotten in the way of the content.

If only it at least supported the Firefox Reading Mode I could tolerate anything, but as this doesn't ...

Blogger even blocks the "Go back one page" (Alt+Left / mouse side button) for me.

Visitor, you better stay.

I agree. It is just a page with text, why add tons of Javascript just to render it?

Well, it is made by Google, so no wonder they cannot just serve plain HTML page.

Also they block scale change on mobile devices:

    <meta content='initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no

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