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Comment by robertAngst | Hacker News Reader

Question for people who read the link-

Do you like the writing style and inclusion of gifs?

... There were gifs??

I guess I'm so used to useless ads and graphics in blog posts, I honestly, scout's honour, did not notice and have no recollection whatsoever!

A damning statement on the Internet of today perhaps, but it neither enhanced nor detrimented my reading of the article ‍️

Same here, I don’t even remember there being any images!

same! I had to go back and look because I would have sworn there were no images at all! Now I realize my brain had classified them as ads and simply edited them out of my conscious awareness all together.

I found that the gifs added to the article’s entertainment value. I’d find them annoying if used in a more serious article, though.

Yeah. It was pretty humorous and made for a light read. Definitely would read more stories from this guy.

They were quite effective at conveying the author's frustration humorously, fits the rhythm of the article well.

It's a trend that seems to have started on Buzzfeed, and I've been seeing more and more blogs adopt this style over the past couple of years.

I'm personally not a fan, as I feel it takes away from the content of the post, but I'd be curious to see how it impacts the readership metrics.

Yes.

Also, I used to work in IoT, and you are fortunate with your outcome. So many OEMs are worse.

I’m okay with it. It wasn’t excessive, like some blogs tend to become with these

If relevant I like the inclusion of media. This is ... meh.

I found the headings a bit weird to read, and apparently my brain thought the GIFs were ads, because I didn't notice them at all.

I'm considering browsing with a default style of img { display: none !important; } and disabling it when something breaks.

I enjoyed it.

Is it practical for you to only play the animations on mouse over, and pause them otherwise? I think that might allow us the entertainment value of the gifs, without the annoyance of them looping endlessly while we're trying to read.

If the author had done that, I'd say there's a 50/50 chance I never would have known they were animated. I had no reason to roll over the images with my mouse.

The writing was good, but I honestly found the gifs as irritating as ads. They were just irrelevant meme content, and were just extra crap to scroll past.

Keep writing, it was an excellent post, but only include pictures if they are relevant.

I use reader mode because my preferred mode is what I've seen referred to as "wall of text"

I rarely (~5%) find pictures of any sort improve the understanding, even in "mainstream" news sources.

I liked both. It kept things light and breezy, a comedy of errors.

I don't dislike them nor did they stop me from reading the article but they were all superfluous. That said, so are most words in blog posts anyway so it's all good.

The writing style, yes. The gifs, not really.

I hate gif inclusion.

I didn't like the gifs, because I dislike all technical posts with gifs and memes, but the writing is good.

I detested the writing style.

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