Hey HN crowd!<p>Two days ago I realized I'm almost unable to read a book or a long article without getting distracted by Twitter/HN/Reddit/Work.
The situation is so terrible, I'm even getting afraid of big articles, and my ReadItLater list is getting pretty long (shameful I know) ... and I'm pretty sure most of you are in this situation :)<p>Being used to TL;DRs on long reddit posts, I thought it would be great to have these for everything, so I quickly hacked this website:<p>http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/<p>Here is an example of TL;DR: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy<p>I would love to have your feedback on it, how to improve it, etc.<p>Thank you a bunch!<p>(Some info for nerds: Rails 2.3.8, ~150 LOC, Twitter oAuth is used for posting.)<p>EDIT: Obviously, most of us don't <i>really</i> suffer from ADHD, but I was limited on the characters in the title :)
I visited - didn't know what to do.<p>Definitely need to show a listing of submissions and summaries. As per the example you provided, looks great. Would love to use a service like this.<p>Categorize/tag them so I can browse startup-related articles (or whatever category I want)<p>Auto-fill url's as people are typing.<p>If the story I'm interested in has already been summarized, take me to it.<p>Just a few of my ideas. Could definitely build a mini-newspaper/ezine type of thing around this.<p>Good job! Keep the iterations coming.<p>EDIT: Don't force me to use my twitter account to do a submission - please!
Looks like it could be a good service, like a blog / newspaper version of <a href="http://800ceoread.com/" rel="nofollow">http://800ceoread.com/</a>.<p>Posting a list of recently-posted summaries (blog-style) to the front page — especially with an RSS feed — would be a good way to generate traffic / views / traction.
Here are the clickable links:<p><a href="http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/</a><p>Example of TL;DR: <a href="http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy" rel="nofollow">http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy</a>
I'm sorry to be "that guy" but most of HN readers probably do not suffer from ADHD. There is a big difference between being distracted on the net and real ADHD. So please just call it "internet attention span" or something.