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Overengineered Anchor Links

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wrsh07 ◴[] No.43571164[source]
It's hilarious reading the other comments. I'm on mobile but my first thought was how interesting and novel the site design was and how clearly communicated the problem they were trying to solve

Cool post! It's refreshing to read a blog that doesn't ask me to subscribe with popups etc and gets into technical weeds

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noahjk ◴[] No.43571580[source]
Once I got over my fear of clicking their links, which I assumed would open a new page (but instead just expanded a pane in-line), I really enjoyed it. I’m very wary of opening new pages. (Also, I first tried to hold-click on the link to open in new tab, but it just behaved like regular text and highlighted, which led to a momentary confusion. I would have preferred a more obvious indication of what would happen when clicking, like a down chevron or something.)
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1. creata ◴[] No.43572027[source]
Yeah, styling it as a link makes it a bit unclear as to what it's going to do.
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2. matser ◴[] No.43572162[source]
Thanks!
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3. creata ◴[] No.43572310[source]
Thanks for publishing the article. Idk if my comment sounded too harsh; sorry if it did.

If you're taking more unsolicited nitpicky suggestions, imo the ToC items on the left could use cursor:pointer and a background color change on hover.