Mo’ News is Good News
| Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | --Sean |
As part of a fairly graceful redesign of Yahoo! News, the team introduced a feature on their article pages to allow you to expand and collapse the text of the article, with the default view being collapsed. This was handy in case you just wanted to browse the article and then move right along to the gobs of related content at the bottom of the page, which you might never get to if you had to slog through a mile of verbiage. If you wanted more, it was very easy to just click the "Read Full Article" button.
For me, however, it more often than not felt unnecessarily burdensome to continually need to click a button to read an article that I had never had any intention of skipping over. Personal choice and all -- I just happen to like reading. For a while, I was just stuck with the feature, but then this little link appeared by the "Collapse Article" button:
Which essentially permanently* disabled the buttons, giving me all the news, all the time. It's a cool little feature altogether, but it's even cooler that I have the option not to like it.
* I couldn't figure out how to undo it, at least. Can't tell if it's tied to a cookie or stored server-side, but clearing my cookies was rather inconclusive.