Long Article Complaints
Users repeatedly criticize the excessive length of articles linked on Hacker News, demanding TL;DR summaries, bullet points, or more concise writing to respect readers' time.
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I am really tired of long articles. how hard is it to provide a few bullet points or a two lines summury for people that do no afford to read the entire page?
Yet another super long article that could be summarized in a couple of lines.
No, I mean the article was too long and it could have been stated in fewer words. I am not trolling.
This article is too long. It should simply say: "Be concise."
Good lord what a long winded article. Just get to the point.
why are these articles always so pointlessly long. who wants to read all this meandering tangential bullshit when it can be distilled down into two paragraphs at most.
“ I realize that this article is quite long, and unfortunately this is the short version. Much nuance and history is lost here, even though the post is already long enough that it is destined for the limbo of a bookmarks folder called "to read later". Despite the fact that no one will read more than the next 3 paragraphs…” - pro tip - if you want to make the article shorter and easier to read don’t spend an entire paragraph blabbering about how long it is and how nobody reads anymore.
I know that 'tl;dr' is frowned upon here but this particular tl;dr is better written and just as in depth as the article itself.
I wish posts like this reduced their content to more concise descriptions so more people would finish reading them.
The text could use some shortening.