[rtpg]

There are a lot of broken articles in the universe, but is this one of them?

This article seems to just have chapter separation and a cover image on each chapter, as well as some video inserts.

Apart from the video, this is pretty much exactly how it would be formatted in a magazine. Do you think magazines are for chumps too, because they use too many pictures?

[fenomas]

Aside: it's hugely ironic how frequently commenters on HN, of all places, berate sites for being hard to read on mobile.

[tvawnz]

I think a magazine that intentionally spurns it's own inherent benefits in favor of pretending to be something else, like a movie or a symphony, would be for chumps, yes.

Websites offer infinite scroll, that's their medium, pretending to be a magazine is ridiculous and frustrating.

[Turing_Machine]

"this is pretty much exactly how it would be formatted in a magazine."

But the web isn't a magazine. It's like arguing that printing a book on five pound clay cuneiform tablets is a good idea, because that's how the Babylonians would have done it.

[rtpg]

I'm saying that because I found pretty much nothing offensive about this layout (compared to actually offensive things like scrolljacking and whatnot), and the only difference between this and an "ideal" webpage would be to have it all on one page.

Otherwise this is just a web page with some embedded images and some larger text (which is pretty common practice on any long-form story website).

[speeder]

For me it took minutes to load, then loaded some broken page with bright pink boxes over bright pink and I Camé here to sete if there was a transcription