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I would like to read the article, but an add covers 1/2 of the screen and can't be closed or moved.


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Interesting. I just wanted to collapse the side panel for less distraction. Didn't realise it was an unpleasant reading experience.

An article appeared for me, but the navigation bar took up 1/3-1/4 of the screen, which made it hard to read.

I seem to have a panel on the left that is obscuring about half of the text. I'm sure that can't be the intention - is it yet another case of incredibly poor design?

There appears to be no way to dismiss it, and it doesn't move. In short, I can't read the article, because someone wanted to be clever.

Added in edit: It becomes visible if I reduce my text size, rendering the text visible, but difficult to read. Interesting trade-off.


I'd love to read the piece but the cookie pop covers 70% of the window on mobile and I can't close it

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Dude, please use margins. The writing is far too close to the edge of the screen for comfortable reading.

Is there any way to mark articles as read so that they don't occupy the screen any more?

As if the huge gutters to the left and right on a 16:9 display weren't bad enough, nearly 3/4 of my browser window is consumed by the header and a giant unscrollable blue rectangle with a menu surrounded by large amounts of padding in it, leaving the article in just the bottom 1/4.

Putting my hand up against the screen to cover the entire visible part of the article reveals that I am reading from an area the size of my hand ... on a desktop PC with a widescreen monitor and a fully maximized browser window.


Not only that, but no zooming? They obviously don't want anyone to read it on a smallish screen. Instant close-tab.

Seems to me this would interfere with the accessibility of the website for those that use screen readers.

Nice article BUT I really despise that it's so left and so small. Impossible to read on a larger screen.

Was looking forward to reading the article but I'm on an ipad and the left-hand menu seems to overlap the main body content?

Really sorry about that. I pushed a change to hide it when it doesn't fit.

That area of the screen is supposed to be an informational card, like you see in Google search results. When I have the data, it shows books a speaker has written, and I'm working on getting more in there.


> It is very annoying to this post on a 28" monitor... the text runs from left to right with no margin spacing.

Rotate your monitor by 90 degrees for a better reading experience. If this is not possible, buy one that can.

Until it arrives, use the Reading View of your preferred browser.


90% of the readable screen is a menu for me. I can see the article in about 10% of the space. It is difficult to read like that.

A complaint about the site: I like to move my mouse near the section I'm reading, but it keeps fading out the part I'm trying to read.

Also, I still don't really understand what does this do? You only give me a form but no additional information.


Taking up way too much space on mobile with the distracting CTA. Stopped reading when I couldn't close the popup on my phone.

Might try again later on my desktop, if you promise to remove that at some point :)


By resizing my window down to mobile-ish width, the "get your free e-book" thing on the right side covers the whole screen.

Please don't open sharing options when I highlight text - that's how many people including me keep track of reading position. I had to try and adblock the element which pops up to read this.

Articles to avoid on the web: Articles that can't wrap properly when you have an LCD screen larger than the hand of a toddler.
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