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Yeah, I suppose it is.
Which is interesting when you consider how relatively short a time the internet has been around, and the extent to which we are now dependent on it...and already take it for granted.
But as far as patience and attention spans...both do seem to be at much lower levels on average than they used to be.
In addition to that, and quite likely a result of it, is 'jump thinking/doing'. HTML's legacy is that people have become unable to read a full text all the way to the end: those links are just too tempting and before they know it they're reading/watching stuff distinct to that which they were concerning themselves with in the first place. This has translated to offline life in the wise of plenty of tasks begun, hardly any seen through—and if they are, they usually aren't completed without many interruptions and wandering-offs. People nowadays just cannot stay focused.
As a guy who drives 8-10 hours a day, I don't mind waiting at a red light. I do mind waiting at a green light for the four people in front of me each to realize it's time to put down their phones.
OTOH, 16 seconds for a webpage to load is a webpage that isnt worth loading.
OTOH, 16 seconds for a webpage to load is a webpage that isnt worth loading.
I just want to say cheers to the people putting in the hard work on the upcoming site. In the past I've worked on teams rolling out a new web site for end-users. It doesn't surprise me that it's taking longer than anticipated; it's a lot of hand-wringing and debugging.
Looking forward to the new site!
Looking forward to the new site!
I sense a Jerry King cartoon somewhere in all of this...
Just consider that first attempt as the charring light. :
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Just consider that first attempt as the charring light. :
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Agree with Ash: unless they drop the hyperlinks I can't see why an image hosted on another site would disappear. And I can't see why the links would be dropped by the newer software—they're basically just text.
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