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zahlmanyesterday at 6:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

With JavaScript disabled I had to inspect page source and remove "hidden" attributes from divs for content to show up. There's no placeholder text, no attempt to justify the need for JS at all, no consideration of the possibility that someone might be using a JS whitelisting tool (such as NoScript) on the modern Web despite its clear utility. For a blog post.

Aside from that:

> Descriptive title, immediately comes to the point, no elaborate fluff, factual...

I'll give you "descriptive title". I could write this much more directly and pleasantly.


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c-hendricksyesterday at 6:45 PM

I really feel like this genre of comment should fall under this "don't" from the HN guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

You're willingly disabling a part of web atandards.

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Insimwytimtoday at 1:25 AM

That is absolutely a horrible dark pattern and abuse of the technology.