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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

This page weirdly freezes my browser every 30 seconds or so. But reloading it you can then move to another section quickly. Strange. But very interesting how these treasure troves keep turning up, some day well into the future people will be ecstatic that someone took the time and made the effort to preserve all of this.

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Same problem, I figure it's some promo hidden by adblock. If you turn on reader mode it's fine

Separately, is there any possibility this documentation will end up online at some point? The inner workings of early Compuserve sounds like several years worth of well spent winter nights

I did notice after some duration it popped up some dumb newsletter signup modal, so maybe that's causing some issues from an adblock... sadness. Why do otherwise-good sites use this dark pattern crap? :(

I sometimes amuse myself by signing up for their newsletter using the foulest, most obscene email address I can make up on short notice. CHM just got one of those "subscriptions" from an email address which I shall not utter here.

Those stupid popups are way, way beneath a classy organization like CHM. Sad to see.

Especially TCHM because I really had them at a higher level in my opinion and to spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what's wrong here only to find out afterwards that it was a stupid dark pattern drops them right out of the bracket of 'benign' into 'hostile'. This is the sort of thing that you break exactly once, and I really wonder which 2 bit marketeer thought that destroying the reputation of TCHM was ok.

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