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36 pointsalexzeitler12 comments

I do not like this new format of c2. Is it possible to move around the popup that opens when you click a link or that is not the intention of those popups?

Open in new tab worked.

It’s perhaps an interesting idea for large screens but it’s very unfriendly for mobile.

The idea here is to be able to quickly glance at linked articles without having to leave the page and lose mental context, though other implementations such as Safari’s long press on link and the user space implementation on gwern.net are much better.

I really like how tiddlywiki handles this - clicking on something opens a closeable pane below. Works great for my mind maps and "decentralised" writing.

Agree, its painful to browse and read. Feels almost intentionally obtuse. They'd be much better off with the stacked pages style of Andy M [1] and obsidian publish [2]

[1] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/

[2] https://obsidian.md/publish

> style of Andy M

As I go forward through the stack, the rendering works fine and as expected. When I go back through it, the “previous” page renders two or three times. It’s possible the first paint is a cached page image from my browser, but why does the site then render the page I’m leaving briefly before rendering the page I was heading back to.

Just as with C2, there’s some client-side rendering system running that seems to provide no runtime benefit over plain old HTML. All these sites need is text and links.

Some time ago, I've read a book by architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander. In it, he presents a series of essential characteristics of wholeness: The "Fifteen Fundamental Properties" that give life to objects and buildings. I attempted to distill the essence of each property and have noted them here primarily for my own reference:

https://camillovisini.com/writing/fifteen-fundamental-proper...

I am so confused as to what this is.

What does this have to do with patterns?

It’s a list of different formats used to define a pattern.

A pattern of what exactly?

The "patterns" on the page just look like some odd word document sections used for I have no idea what.

any of those : https://wiki.c2.com/?CategoryPattern

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