If they wanted me to read that article they shouldn't have started by forcing me to scoll past a bunch of unenlightening pictures each with a single sentence scrolling over them.

After the third one I closed the tab. What's wrong with people? Someone went to the effort to research and write a story and then somebody else erected an annoying barrier to read it.

Edit to add:

I am well aware commenting on site design is discouraged on HN, but many of us do generate web sites of one sort or another (from blogs to customer-facing SaaS or ecommerce to corporate sites) so I felt that mentioning this egregious example is germane.

This scolly-barrier reminds me of 1990s sites that began with a splash screen that needed to be clicked through to get to the first page of the site. People would even complain about visitors using "deep links" (i.e. links) that meant they didn't get to see the splash page each time.

Funny that when you get to amazon or google or in fact most sites who actually want you to use them you immediately get something related to site use: a search bar, some content related to your past visits or something explanatory.

The approach this site took I consider as self-indulgent as a splash page, hence my calling it out.