Ok, if an article is 500 words long and the bot shortens it to 80 is still reasonable to call it TL:DR, however if there is a 1000+ word article we have two options:
Shorten it to 2-300 words and still give us most of the important details, or give us a two sentence summary, which is the true TL:DR for me, but most headlines also do the same job.
Personally option 1 is much better and I don’t care how the bot is called. I’m okay with reading one phone screen worth of text instead of clicking the link and skimming through whatever side content and ads they have and reading 5-10 times as much.
Call it something else if you don’t like the TL:DR bot name, or block it, but it’s super useful IMO.
I just want it shortened to a non-clickbait headline. And then a version shortened to about a 1/4rd length, as that’s usually the ratio of information to fluff in written articles.
He should at least put it in spoiler tags. So it doesnt block 2 pages full of text
Am i the only person that likes the tldr bot?
I like it because it means I don’t have to go to the actual article most of the time to read what it says
Here it does a great job of reducing a text of 174 words to 172 words. 👍
(I do not want to complain too much. Usually it works and it is short enough for me to quickly read it.)
Best of all you do not need to click the link, load the website, enable JavaScript because there is nothing without it and then tap the cookie banner away disabling all of the cookies first.
i see a future where we no longer access websites directly because websites got so bloated that using a bot to give us the content instead is just way easier
A bot that would send us the content as email, which we’d read using Emacs. I can see that happening.
