Yes, thanks for that! The unfortunate thing about this new feature is that it wasn't saving users time, memory, or bandwidth. It appears that it was still loading the full content of articles but just truncating their display and thus forcing users to perform extra clicks where before they used to not have to.
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Yes, thanks for that! The unfortunate thing about this new feature is that it wasn't saving users time, memory, or bandwidth. It appears that it was still loading the full content of articles but just truncating their display and thus forcing users to perform extra clicks where before they used to not have to.
Well, for those who didn't care about various articles you can say it kind of saved time in the sense of them not needing to scroll as much to get past them.
For me at least, I like the shortened articles when using a mobile browser, as it cuts down on the amount of swiping I need to do to get to the forum links, etc. On desktop though, I much prefer the full length version.
So maybe make it an option (or default, after some additional user feedback) for the mobile website.
So maybe make it an option (or default, after some additional user feedback) for the mobile website.
Shortened articles are the only way to view on mobile version of the site. It's been like that for quite some time.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but it doesn't bug me. There's a fair percentage of stories I don't intend to read and I can stroll past them more quickly. As pointed out above, there's no additional page load to expand an article if you want to read the rest.
What does bother me more is the fact that instead of one unified article stream, we have Front Page, Mac Blog and iOS Blog. Irritating to have to root around, and now that you're truncating articles to make scrolling through them faster, why not just put everything on one page, as 9to5 Mac does?
What does bother me more is the fact that instead of one unified article stream, we have Front Page, Mac Blog and iOS Blog. Irritating to have to root around, and now that you're truncating articles to make scrolling through them faster, why not just put everything on one page, as 9to5 Mac does?
We are moving toward a unified stream for desktop, but there's some work to be done to make that happen.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ge-button-in-main-page.2167326/#post-27123824
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ge-button-in-main-page.2167326/#post-27123824
The expand button is a very annoying function that does not apply most of the cases. It is more annoying to click on something to read a few more lines than scrolling down which is something you are already doing. And then the extra layer with the gradient. The site looks fine and works properly.
Facebook hasn't added any feature in their layout ages ago, the reason is that you are changing something cosmetically that people are already used to. Some things just work. Overlays and extra buttons do not make the "reading experience" faster nor better.
You can turn it off using this
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ain-page-are-shortened.2168651/#post-27101122
I initially balked at the change, but as I browse on smaller devices, I appreciate the ability to skip over uninteresting articles more expeditiously.
The toggle Expanded articles is working again
This will turn it on/off: https://www.macrumors.com/mr-toggleExpand.php
This will turn it on/off: https://www.macrumors.com/mr-toggleExpand.php
thank you!
can you add the link to the toogle to the bottom of the page alongside the other toggles currently available??
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something like [ Expanded articles On/Off ] could be shown after the [ Featured On/Off ]
thanks!