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by _answ 1337 days ago
I'm sure the visually impaired users appreciate that a lot.

"Show, don't tell" is good advice for creative writing, which this website isn't. As a potential customer, it shouldn't be my job to cut through the marketing fluff to figure out if a product is something that is relevant to me.

This buzzword-driven style of writing, which has infected many a software project in recent years, is a pure triumph of form over function. Maybe it is necessary to appeal to the CTO types of the industry, but as a simple developer I do find it confusing and frankly repulsive.

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I immediately scroll down to a picture/video. If you don't show me something I am gone. The Linear home page is incredible in my eyes. Just as a visually impaired user might not like pictures, a dyslexic person might not like text. Just another perspective for ya.