Why do so many "Contact us" portals (particularly for government bodies) squish paragraphs together into one giant, unreadable block of text?
What reason could there possibly be for doing such an awful thing.
Good writing uses paragraphs to structure the expression. Squishing the original paragraphs into a single block hides that structure and makes it much harder for the recipient to parse.
It is a dumb thing and I wish governments and corporate "contact us" portals would stop living in the teletype era.
Karl Auerbach /
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2024-03-18 19:52:08
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