Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode

16 points by xnx 2 days ago

I enabled Chrome reading mode for an article (https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-crypto-crash-the-blue-wave fwiw) on Substack and was confronted with an unspaced mess of text. Inspecting the original page revealed source like :<span>Will</span><span> </span><span>crypto</span><span> </span><span>crash</span><span> </span><span>the</span><span> </span>

jairajs89 1 day ago

ah damn, this bug came from the text color handling we added when you copy paste from google docs into substack. will be fixed in tomorrow mornings deploy

  • ludamn 1 day ago

    Thx for posting this update (and for the work on substack!), it brings a relief to know this was a bug and not a "feature"

    I really like using reader mode on substack so I was a bit worried if this was intentional or not

Aozora7 2 days ago

Firefox reading mode works without issues for me on that page. But can confirm I see the same thing in Chrome.

mkbkn 2 days ago

Firefox/Zen is best