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The styles on this blog overwrite repeated links with the color of the main text (see `.duplicate`). What's the design idea behind this? I doubt it holds, since the links are still there for keyboard users, etc.
Either make your hyperlinks visibly distinct (ideally underline them) or remove them.
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bronlund • last Wednesday at 5:01 PM
If you have already been there, why would you go again?
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I did that because people complained that the links were too visible (because the site is actually a Wiki, there are often several copies of the same link throughout the text).
Over the past 20 years there have been many schools of thought about it, and the only way I could get people to stop kvetching about it was to have the links become more distinct on paragraph hover but still render them in a distinct color (and oddly enough, the rate of complaints went way down when I shifted to dark red).
I have no sane explanation for this other than ascribing it to user-driven UX research over a massive amount of time (when compared to most other websites I know).
But (fun fact) the duplicate links inside paragraphs do wonders for RAG chunking and vectorization. :)