(I don’t think many people ever bother to use that particular gwern.net feature, but that’s at least partially due to the link bibliography being in the metadata block, and as we all know, no one ever reads the metadata.)
I don’t have any idea whether people use that feature or not, but I definitely love it. One of my fav things about browsing gwern.net.
I was directed to the story of Clippy from elsewhere (rabbit hole from the Gary Marcus vs SSC debate) and was pleasantly surprised with the reader mode (I had not read gwern.net for months). Then, I came here for discussion and stumbled upon this thread explaining your reasoning for the reader mode. This is great! It’s a really useful feature and incidentally, I used it exactly the way you envisioned users would.
I don’t have any idea whether people use that feature or not, but I definitely love it. One of my fav things about browsing gwern.net.
I was directed to the story of Clippy from elsewhere (rabbit hole from the Gary Marcus vs SSC debate) and was pleasantly surprised with the reader mode (I had not read gwern.net for months). Then, I came here for discussion and stumbled upon this thread explaining your reasoning for the reader mode. This is great! It’s a really useful feature and incidentally, I used it exactly the way you envisioned users would.
/sheds tears of joy that someone actually uses the link-bibliographies and noticed the reader mode