Can't Read Long Posts Anymore

[conjamuk]

Anyone else having this problem recently. I just get too lazy to finish reading long walls of text in forums and emails. I can read long books with no issues.

 

[ShadowCaster]

I usually scroll down to see if there is TL;DR at the end, if not I kind of skim it over to see if it's worth reading.

 

[clucas]

Same. long posts, long threads. skim over them at best. I'm not sure if I'm getting more lazy or less interested. Dunno.

 

[AdamC]

Part of the problem (for me) is having a 1920px wide screen and forum posts taking up 90% of the width. It does mean your eyes have to travel quite far per line and this makes it harder/slower to read, especially if you have to try to work out which line is next as you go from one line to the next. a fixed width vb child style would be good, say, 1300px wide.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

If it's a topic I'm interested in, no problems reading longer posts / articles. Quit reading Twitter.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

I'm just here for the .gifs.

 

[AdamC]

If it's a topic I'm interested in, no problems reading longer posts / articles. Quit reading Twitter.

ITT: netbook users

 

[conjamuk]

One thing that has helped me is highlighting a long post and have it spoken with narrator. It also allows you to work on other stuff.

 

[ShadowCaster]

Part of the problem (for me) is having a 1920px wide screen and forum posts taking up 90% of the width. It does mean your eyes have to travel quite far per line and this makes it harder/slower to read, especially if you have to try to work out which line is next as you go from one line to the next. a fixed width vb child style would be good, say, 1300px wide.

Try resizing the browser to be half or 1/3 of the width of the screen, pretty hard to get used to at first, but then it gets easier

I'm just here for the .gifs.

 

[JoseArmando]

I'm just here for the .gifs.

 

[AdamC]

Try resizing the browser to be half or 1/3 of the width of the screen, pretty hard to get used to at first, but then it gets easier

that's ok if you dont mind seperating the tab, but i prefer to have one browser window with 100 tabs

 

[Gooddeal]

I read comments only, they're another version of TL;DR.

 

[Zaino]

did not read, was too long.

 

[Zsaleem]

I use Summly.

 

[JakeStratham]

Anyone else having this problem recently. I just get too lazy to finish reading long walls of text in forums and emails. I can read long books with no issues.

For me, it depends entirely on the author. If guerilla pens a long post, I will read it - even if it addresses something I have little interest in. On the other hand, I will not even take the time to read 3-sentence posts from a majority of members here.

As Roger Ebert once said about films...

"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough."

So too with forum posts, emails, and books. If length alone is the filter, I imagine you will miss many masterpieces.

 

[microphone head]

Part of the problem (for me) is having a 1920px wide screen and forum posts taking up 90% of the width. It does mean your eyes have to travel quite far per line and this makes it harder/slower to read, especially if you have to try to work out which line is next as you go from one line to the next. a fixed width vb child style would be good, say, 1300px wide.

Yeah, they fixed that in the first ever version of Windows I believe... they allowed you to resize any window on your desktop.

(just kidding - I get the same on my Mac. It's partly why I do most of my dev on a smaller screen on my PC)

 

[cunts]

I can't even read a paragraph so....