pensnest: bright-eyed baby me (Rackham is baffled again)
[personal profile] pensnest
I. Am baffled.

I followed a MetaFilter link to a page on Longreads (this one) and noticed that there are no x, y and z letters on the pages.

Is there some unprecedented quirk in my browser? When I cut and paste this sentence, it all shows.

Longreads publishes and curates powerful writing, from personal essays to investigative journalism — and we wouldn’t exist without supporters like you

But when I read it online, it looks like this: Longreads publishes and curates powerful writing, from personal essas to investigative journalism — and we wouldn’t e"ist without supporters like ou.

I… have no idea what is going on. i thought perhaps it was a means of making articles available to people who haven't paid a subscription, but on the Join Longreads page there is no mention of getting your end-of-alphabet back if you pay. Beast suggests they are using a weird font that—for reasons passing understanding—doesn't show these letters.

Take a look! Do you get this y-less effect?

Date: 2019-10-02 01:26 pm (UTC)
copracat: xena (xena makes my day)
From: [personal profile] copracat
The page with the adorbs illustrations has x,y and Z for me. I'm using Firefox on a Mac.

Date: 2019-10-02 02:52 pm (UTC)
chalcopyrite: Two little folded-paper boats in the rain (Default)
From: [personal profile] chalcopyrite
Chrome on a windows machine works fine. My guess would be concur with Beast's -- they're forcing a font, and you don't have it installed, maybe?

Thank you for linking that adorable essay, anyway!

Date: 2019-10-02 03:04 pm (UTC)
sperrywink: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sperrywink
How bizarre! Enough so that I had to go check, and it worked for me in Chrome on a PC.

Date: 2019-10-02 07:07 pm (UTC)
wenchpixie: (keanu young smile)
From: [personal profile] wenchpixie
It displays okay for me, but it sounds like CSS weirdness - possibly you've an addon somewhere that doesn't quite get on with their code.

Date: 2019-10-02 09:44 pm (UTC)
ephemera: celtic knotwork style sitting fox (Default)
From: [personal profile] ephemera
I have all the letters (Firefox on Ubuntu) and also really enjoyed the read - I' sorry that technology is thwarting you!

Date: 2019-10-03 06:54 pm (UTC)
turlough: blue & red fashion drawing with the text "Oh, Dear, What Shall I Wear!" (cover for a book by Helen Garnell, 1946) ((other) decisions decisions)
From: [personal profile] turlough
I can see them in Firefox on my aging Mac.

PS That was a fun and interesting article!

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