Meta: Why have a jump if there is no content after it? [Find out after THE JUMP]
It is officially OT season and I have been wondering about this for a while, why have a "READ MORE" button at the end of a post if there is nothing more to read?
Does anyone else still click the button anyways, you know, just in case? And before most of you say, "never", I am sure Seth or Brian can generate the number of clicks the "READ MORE" button produces on the posts with no additional content.
Website infrastructure would be my guess.
Comments section that won't show on front page?
April 21st, 2021 at 10:18 AM ^
Honestly, I hadn't thought of the comments aspect. However, most often the "no content after jump" posts are those of new commits or departures that have been recently posted in the message board. These posts typically generate far more comments than the front page post. I have no idea of the financial implications of not having comments on the front page posts. Assuming it is not a significant impact, for the sake of simplicity and keeping the conversation in one place, would it be better to only have comments on message board post of the same topic?
April 21st, 2021 at 10:47 AM ^
Lose the question mark. Of course it's for the comments section.
HoneyBrownB40's answer gets a B for lack of confidence. If there was simply a period, it would have gotten an A-. An exclamation point would have given it the full A+. Blue Vet gets extra credit for pointing this out.
Can you tell that I'm a teacher and it is grading season?
April 21st, 2021 at 11:06 AM ^
You could just click the article title to go to the article detail page, which has the comments. Sounds like most people use the read more to get to the comments. Haha.
April 21st, 2021 at 12:21 PM ^
Exactly. For long article, the READ MORE is for the rest of the article, plus the comments because having all of that on the front page would make scrolling through a nightmare. For short article (that could still have a ton of comments), the same would apply. If you think of the READ MORE button as a SHOW COMMENTS button, it makes more sense.
April 21st, 2021 at 12:32 PM ^
You can also just click the comments icon with the number but whatever. Don't move the cheese.
April 21st, 2021 at 12:59 PM ^
Mine doesn't show that, it only has the READ MORE at the bottom of the post (before it has been expanded). And I'm not suggesting a work around, just explaining why you would have a jump with no content behind it (because you're also un-hiding the comments).
Because Dave said so
April 21st, 2021 at 11:50 AM ^
Beat me to it . . . +1
April 21st, 2021 at 12:00 PM ^
"HEY YOU!"
"Who said that?"
"Baby, how you been?"
Might as well jump, go ahead and jump.
Because you touch yourself at night? Sinner...
April 21st, 2021 at 10:56 AM ^
Just at night? Hey, don't put limitations on me.
Let me make a COMMENT on your post to answer the question.
Having the Read More button be functional is a bigger issue IMO...
April 21st, 2021 at 10:02 AM ^
Because it refreshes the screen and leads to incremental ad impressions
April 21st, 2021 at 10:04 AM ^
Like if a donut hole is an empty hole, how do they make donut holes? Is it magic? How do you make something from nothing?
April 21st, 2021 at 10:10 AM ^
Why have a jump if there is no content after it?
[Answer after the jump]
April 21st, 2021 at 10:40 AM ^
My first thought was - what if the author, in fact, jumped at that point in writing? I mean, all you can say then is, "Well, I suppose that's it...."
April 21st, 2021 at 10:22 AM ^
More clicks for advertising...
April 21st, 2021 at 10:23 AM ^
The "jump" is really where the post lives. What we see on the front page is a preview of that. If the post is short the preview will show all of it.
In other words, nothing is posted to the front page so much as posts are pinned to it.
April 21st, 2021 at 12:23 PM ^
this is the real answer. Each post made by the staff has a unique URL, whether or not there is anything 'after the jump'.
Clicking 'the jump' just means 'click here to go the URL of the full post'. The front page only shows a certain amount of content regardless of how long the post is.
anyone saying 'for the clicks' is demonstraiting their ignorance & missing the fact that by saying "there is nothing after the jump" the staff is telling you there is no need to go to the full post.
April 21st, 2021 at 10:23 AM ^
More clicks, dude!
April 21st, 2021 at 10:24 AM ^
I wouldn't be surprised that, sometimes, if they wrote "no content after the jump," it would come right after the jump. That would be frustrating as hell.
April 21st, 2021 at 10:38 AM ^
you can't have an egg without a chicken....
but you can't have a chicken without an egg.....
April 21st, 2021 at 10:43 AM ^
Because the comments are often as entertaining as the article.
April 21st, 2021 at 10:45 AM ^
I have also long pondered this and the reason is.........
April 21st, 2021 at 10:59 AM ^
For the same reason that you put a sign reading "Dry Paint" on a wall:
To see how many people just have to make sure.
April 21st, 2021 at 11:18 AM ^
Because it's good to jump off the couch and jump around to get some exercise, but safer for klutzes like myself who would trip over the jump rope.
April 21st, 2021 at 11:56 AM ^
Us OGs need to pace ourselves.
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April 21st, 2021 at 11:29 AM ^
It's just outdated web app design that they're locked into because it's probably not worth $25-50k to update to the modern era
April 21st, 2021 at 12:13 PM ^
some folks just like to jump
April 21st, 2021 at 12:19 PM ^
while we're on this, why doesn't it actually jump?
April 21st, 2021 at 12:45 PM ^
I think it used to jump, and then when the site changed it stopped jumping, and they said sorry about that but you're going to have to scroll for now, and now it's later and no one cares enough to fix it or bring it up again
April 21st, 2021 at 12:29 PM ^
Drupal'd
April 21st, 2021 at 12:44 PM ^
Because Oakland is still in play.
My nitpick is that the JUMP happens too late. Most websites just have one paragraph before a jump, but for whatever reason MGoBlog will run half the article (or more) before finally putting the jump in there. It has the effect of shoving the other front-page articles out of sight.
If you are one of the lucky ones, then clicking on the button opens up a gateway to unlimited bliss and euphoria and will change your life forever. But only if you are one of the lucky ones.
This was my secret fear all along:(
It's on the list of things to fix, but we wanted to get some more important things done first. Right now is adding some much-needed functions back to the message board. Also changing to a darker blue because the school wants us to stop using their official colors.
Also we have some data that scared us into keeping the button and the [read more after THE JUMP] tags, which is about the only time we've ever bowed to a metric.
Like it? We're going to a darker blue: 0,22,42, which is what I've been using for everything else. Currently it's 0,39,76.
I like it. Close enough that most won't notice and hopefully far enough away the copyright folks can't get after you.
April 21st, 2021 at 10:57 PM ^
I like the darker blue.
I HATE that the university that I spent 80k to attend to be a public servant is bitching at an independent blog for using a particular hue that the university has found some legal way to say is theirs.
Shit like that makes me want to NEVER donate to UM.
I assume for the exercise.
Why ask why?
Sorry about your thread title. I couldn't resist.
well done!