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by vvillena 457 days ago
I have great news for you. The article is also perfectly structured, which means it shows flawlessly on reader mode.

Reader mode is a standard feature on all major browsers on both desktop and mobile. Given you're so vocal about how articles should work by just "displaying the words", I'd suggest that you acquaintance yourself with the one feature that does exactly that.

Thanks to reader mode, you get to concentrate on the message. And we get to keep our joy.

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I have bad news for you. This is cut-and-paste directly from reader mode in Firefox mobile.

"Then came terminals and command lines. Physical knobs turned into typed commands—more powerful, but our digital world became less embodied. Then came terminals and command lines. Physical knobs turned into typed commands—more powerful, but our digital world became less embodied. Then came terminals and command lines. Physical knobs turned into typed commands—more powerful, but our digital world became less embodied. Then came terminals and command lines. Physical knobs turned into typed commands—more powerful, but our digital world became less embodied. Then came terminals and command lines. Physical knobs turned into typed commands—more powerful, but our digital world became less embodied. Then came terminals and command lines. Physical knobs turned into typed commands—more powerful, but our digital world became less embodied."

I stopped reading after that. There are also missing full stops, which means it's difficult to understand what's happening.

Reader seems to be broken on iOS Safari—after the first few paragraphs sentences start repeating 8 or so times in a row

Plus the longer paragraphs, confined to the height of their parent image, are cut off on my iPhone mini, leading to sections reading e.g.:

> controls with GUIs—graphical user interfaces. We skeumorphed the heck out of our screens, with digital switches, flat sliders, and folder icons. But we kept some of the the functionality in the physical world, with slots to stick disks into and big