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by jessfyi 1241 days ago
It's just the classical socratic method applied to characters that you particularly don't identify with. Fasterthanlime's bear and why's guide have often been praised here for the same thing (the interludes break up the long, boring blocks of text that deep dives often lose readers on,) and it's trivial to use a Reading Mode or skip them for the legitimately interesting technical information within.
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Unfortunately reading mode didn't remove the characters for me, it actually made them occupy the whole screen LOL (Fennec on Android if anyone is wondering). I don't have that much of a problem with the conversational format as long as it's used in an appropriate context, but this one was really intrusive and broke the flow of the text, since I'm reading mostly for entertainment I decided it wasn't worth the time.
I'll investigate fixing that. Where can I download Fennec?
Thank you xena, you can download it from FDroid here https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

You might also just download normal Firefox as the behavior is the same when it comes to rendering.

I'll do what I can. I fear the problem will boil down to not having control of CSS in reader mode (which is understandable, really) and I may need to admit how my CDN serves the sticker files to serve lower quality assets. I hope it's a simple fix. Gonna do the fix live on Twitch tomorrow: https://twitch.tv/princessxen
Fixed on stream. The CDN resizes images on the fly now.