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Comment by JohnMakin | Hacker News Reader

Please stop trying to present information in this style of webpage, I am begging you. Besides being an abysmal way to present scientific information, every time someone posts one of these it happens to be a topic I am extraordinarily interested in, but due to disabilities I have, I cannot read it even if I wasn't tremendously annoyed by it.

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It's really bad even for me on my phone. The text content fades away before I can scroll it completely into view. No reader mode available.

Same here. I gave up on reading it once the diagram animations made it near impossible

If you're a reader of Quanta, there's nothing new on this page. It seems like a repackaging of some simple concepts in a pretty web format to attract a less sophisticated audience.

As a less sophisticated audienc emember, can someone PDF the thing for me my vision wetware can't grok it

I agree, this is abysmal ux. Doesn't even remotely work on my phone. All those stupid animations literally removing information from my screen before I've had a chance to read it. Drastically reducing the "reading surface" of the actual information attempting to be conveyed. Animations are cool and useful but they too could just be placed on a static page.

The whole thing seems like some over excited marketing person enshittifying the literal idea of static pages of informative just to make something "new".

I forget which publication, might have been the new yorker, won a pulitzer prize for a long-form article written in this style. Visually it worked very well (because it was telling a story, not trying to convey information) and the scrolling graphic transitions were gentle enough that I could manage it + reader mode. Since then, it seems like other magazines have followed suit.

I don't mind the format, but the article itself was basically nothing you couldn't get from 5 minutes of looking at wikipedia.

I closed the page instantly after opening it. Reader view isn't even available. Sigh.

How could it be made more accessible to you?

reader mode supported. sometimes they are sometimes no.

I was disappointed to see reader mode wasn't available, and tried to find some other plugin to just show me the text. The couple plugins I tried could not parse it, nor could the text-only browser I downloaded called ViolonCello. (It only renders header and footer text.) It's very frustrating.

They could be regular web pages without the silly scroll animations, just like in the good old days.

Just make it a web page, not a powerpoint presentation.

I liked the presentation and it worked great on my phone.

I'm sorry you have issues but I'm glad the world doesn't cater to a single individual's issue.

I can't swim because of a whole in my ear drum from when the Nun at the free clinic my poor mother took me to popped that bad boy with a enthusiastic squeeze from an ear syringe and my tinnitus rings like a son-of-a-bitch when I wear ear plugs but I don't demand they fill in every swimming pool with concrete. I just walk by on those hot summer days wistfully jealous of the guy doing a cannonball and the lady doing the hand stand thing where your feet are in dry air but your head is 2 feet below the water level.

The analogy would be more like a library forcing everyone to swim through a pool in order to read a particular book. And if you complain you have a disability, someone says that the world shouldn't cater to an individual.

The analogy is ridiculous, yes. As it is ridiculous to build such a website that disabled people cannot possibly read. You don't have to make it perfect for them, just don't make it impossible.

The analogy is to stop making documentary films because one cannot see or hear.

Should businesses and academia strive to make information accessible? Yes. Should every piece of information be put into accessible formats, damn the art? I don't think so.

This is an insanely weird and ableist post.

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