It really reduces the amount of space for the actual content
When comparing to Reader View in Safari, the native site has at least 40% less viewing area
Zero ads, and mostly I'm there for the text anyway.
Aside from that though, hope you were able to glean something valuable from the article. Would love to hear your opinions.
For me, Cloudflare is the benchmark. Cloudflare.com is very clearly a marketing site, likely run by their marketing team, but their technical content such as their blog and docs are on completely different subdomains with a clean design with no popups or banners. I think this is the best way to run tech focused blog, making both developers and marketing happy.
Just, you know, visit your own site on mobile.
Or open Chrome dev tools and switch to mobile view.
> You have my commitment we'll be working on improving the page.
As with all in-your-face marketing shenanigans, I doubt you'll change anything in the long run.
And we're already working on fixes.
Including the cookie banner that's illegal under GDPR (and is likely illegal under CCPA)
But yes, otherwise the article itself was insightful and thank you for sharing your findings.
I also can't close the chat bubble because the X is off the screen to the right, and the scroll position jumps around near the top of the page as you scroll because some calculation or CSS is wrong.