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It's nice to not "read more after the jump" or "below the fold", no over-pagination, no 100% width 400px deep semi-relevant banner image, no pull quotes in 30px ultra-bold fonts floated over to the sides, no "you may also be interested in" and no asinine comments, .. oh, wait!

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I disagree. This is way to much information for me to digest. I think a happy medium is nice. Enough information on the screen to get the point across but not too little that I have to click everything to find out what I need.

Of course I'm exaggerating, and I agree this page isn't particularly friendly but nor is it intended to be, its a reference to be searched rather than a piece of prose to be read.

A lot of pages I find frustrating are often trying to spin a narrative around what amounts to reference material, or vice-versa & results are often framed with the tropes I mentioned above.

It seems like those could even be two different views into the same material, potentially.

As opposed to the modern trend where there is too much non-information to digest.

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