Who could’ve possibly seen this coming?

  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    Some of these titles needs different capitalization, apices, quotes… something! I shouldn’t have to read it 3-4 times to extrapolate the meaning.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      For anyone else trying to parse the title:

      Sources from Build a Rocket Boy, developer of MindsEye, say the studio has begun layoffs amid a disastrous launch.

      This might hurt every English teacher I ever had, but maybe title format should stop applying to article titles. Unnecessary capitalization hurts legibility.

      Not that it would necessarily solve the wording issue, though, as I’m sure the data people for news publishers have some stats showing they get more engagement when the title is front loaded with more keywords, or something to that effect.

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        18 hours ago

        Old title format is sensible for the limited space of newspapers. We don’t need it to be quite as concise as it used to be with current digital formats.

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          13 hours ago

          Once limited page space, now limited attention span. I fear a title longer than 20 words would already be tl,dr territory.

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            9 hours ago

            Yeah titles should still be short and snappy, but they can cater to more readability while still remaining relatively short.