Reinventing ways to display plain text has been a good chunk of activity on the web for well over a decade now.

But hey, slide-out comments.

Yes, that's extremely annoying. Fun thing that I noticed is that it actually shows the first paragraph, but everything below that remains un-rendered.

Their scrollable container gives me problems with my graphical browsers. There are ways that I can get it to work (enabling JS, disabling CSS, or plugging in a mouse and using that), but I usually just load it in a text browser or pipe wget into some filters instead. For a site that is just text on a page it sure is complicated.

Qz is another new site that's horrible for just reading text out of the box. Half the time I get redirected to some other article or the front page (!?) while scrolling down or just having the page open in a background tab and not doing anything, scroll is something proprietary and doesn't work most of the time, entire thing is clunky and slow.

Thankfully, disabling Javascript actually helps a lot there.