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analog8374last Friday at 3:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

too many clicks per word. and the distance between click points. that's intentional.

well the point would be to see how susceptible you are to that. They're figuring out where your cost vs reward tipping point is.


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scubbolast Friday at 8:41 PM

Can you elaborate? Who are the imagined "they", and in what way are they conducting experiments with or monetizing this investigation?

latexrlast Friday at 4:40 PM

I think you’re reading too much into it. I think it’s just a common design pattern that was copied and is clearly optimised for mobile, where the distance doesn’t matter that much.

Anyway, if they were running metrics on that they just became useless because I automated responding to it a bunch of times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586#48600403

philipwhiuklast Friday at 3:58 PM

There's a small handful, mostly QI-inspired.