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by erenemre 5008 days ago
Best. Bookmarklet. Tutorial. Ever.

Thank you.

I, too, needed something like this forever. Every time I see a long article, I complain about the lack of a tl;dr.

Unfortunately, I am not so optimistic about humans creating the content. You guys have a really, really hard job. Creating the right tools is easy. Convincing people to create tl;dr's is hard.

I'm really curious about how you are planning to solve this problem.

I really do hope that you'll succeed though : ]

Edit: Also, for me, this tool is great for articles that are new. Assuming you don't have enough contributors at the moment, after seeing a few articles that don't have tl;dr, I probably use the tool less and less everyday. Until I forget about it. I'm sure I am not the only one.

1 comments

Thanks we worked a lot on the bookmarklet tutorial :)

You're completely right, the real challenge starts now, we need to find a way to get humans to contribute, because right now you have too much probability of getting a "summary not created yet" message when clicking on the bookmarklet. We already have some ideas we want to explore, if you do have some please tell us it would help a lot!