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The Disconnect: An offline-only, digital magazine of commentary, fiction, poetry

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14 pointsnotpeter12 comments

Also discussed on HN a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079619

Brilliant idea, but it is a bit of a pain for desktop users, no? I'm not sure how I feel about impairing the usability of the site for people whose primary network connection is an older desktop.

I wonder what their bounce rate is for links shared on different devices?

What do you mean? You can disable internet with one click on any device.

How do I do that on my desktop?

https://imgur.com/a/xG1YWwU

Oh, sorry, I swear there used to be a Internet Off switch there, the same as on wifi. I guess it's harder than I thought.

Okay, pretend for a moment I have a desktop, wired computer. OSX or Windows. (But most likely Windows.) Pretend I am computer illiterate family member.

Please tell me how to view this digital magazine.

Computerate illiterate is a different question, I was talking about a knowledgeable person on a desktop. But I was wrong about that.

If you're on Firefox web browser: File-> Work Offline should do the trick. You can access the File menu by tapping once on your 'alt' key.

But how would they measure bounce rate when analytics won't work when the user is disconnected? :)

Anyway since we're on HN you should know that Chrome has a "offline" button in its network tab in its developer tool, used for testing offline features, so you can take a single tab offline, instead of disconnecting everything.

What mechanism does the web site use to detect whether you're online or offline?

Looks like browser events 'offline' and 'online': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOn...

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