I actually dislike such features as it tends to punish authors that write longer articles. Something like 15 minutes to read can dissuade somebody from even reading the opening paragraph, yet it might be the best thing they've ever seen!
Why can't one just start reading the article, and if they run out of time bookmark it for later?
"Something like 15 minutes to read can dissuade somebody from even reading the opening paragraph, yet it might be the best thing they've ever seen!"
I understand your point of view, but that can also be said when they open up the article and see how small the scroll bar gets on the right hand side. They might scroll down a little and watch how little the bar moves and say "oh hell no!" and then leave 😂
And, at least in my case, whenever I'm stopped while reading an article and I'm forced to continue it later, I end up re-reading it because I would lose track of where I was or some of the details of the story.
Having the information about how long this might take would allow me to take a better decision of "can I commit to this for the next XYZ minutes of my day?". You would give the user the power to choose.
I kind of agree with this. I remember the other day I started reading some interasting post about a history of someone had related to bitcoins. I started reading it without even caring about how big could it be, I thought it couldn't be that long. I ended up having a 40 minute read and I'm sure that if I've knew how long it was before I probably never read it.
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I actually dislike such features as it tends to punish authors that write longer articles. Something like 15 minutes to read can dissuade somebody from even reading the opening paragraph, yet it might be the best thing they've ever seen!
Why can't one just start reading the article, and if they run out of time bookmark it for later?
I understand your point of view, but that can also be said when they open up the article and see how small the scroll bar gets on the right hand side. They might scroll down a little and watch how little the bar moves and say "oh hell no!" and then leave 😂
And, at least in my case, whenever I'm stopped while reading an article and I'm forced to continue it later, I end up re-reading it because I would lose track of where I was or some of the details of the story.
Having the information about how long this might take would allow me to take a better decision of "can I commit to this for the next XYZ minutes of my day?". You would give the user the power to choose.
I kind of agree with this. I remember the other day I started reading some interasting post about a history of someone had related to bitcoins. I started reading it without even caring about how big could it be, I thought it couldn't be that long. I ended up having a 40 minute read and I'm sure that if I've knew how long it was before I probably never read it.