19points · 6d ago

Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode

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>
news.ycombinator.com·by xnx·6d ago

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jairajs89·4d 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
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ludamn·4d 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

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Aozora7·5d ago
Firefox reading mode works without issues for me on that page. But can confirm I see the same thing in Chrome.
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mkbkn·5d ago
Firefox/Zen is best
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