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'After the Jump': Hyperlinks Aren't Hyperspace

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The author of this editorial is a bit peeved about the use of the term "after the jump" used by many tech/geek sites. I'm not really sure this topic required an entire editorial of its own, but what the hell, it is a slow news day. :)

I've been editing geek sites since late 2007, and it has taken me some years to even faintly understand what 'after the jump' means. You'll find this phrase liberally scattered through any reasonably mature collection of RSS links and your favourite web sites, and to all intents and purposes it seems to resolve to an analogy of the commercial TV epithet 'after the break'.
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Personally I am not a fan of the phrase, I prefer to say what I mean (hit/click the link) but that's just me.
 
I've never heard the phrase. I like how crabby the guy is, though. Something fun about cynicism.
 
Steve said:
The author of this editorial is a bit peeved about the use of the term "after the jump" used by many tech/geek sites. I'm not really sure this topic required an entire editorial of its own, but what the hell, it is a slow news day. :)
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It's a slow everything day!

I've always disliked the phrase too... I'm glad I don't see it here because I would probably not be able to read the front page every day haha. It just makes me feel like I have to work to get to the rest of the freaking article.
 
I've never understood the hatred for "after the jump". It keeps the layout on iheartchaos.com nice and neat. Given, Cranberryzero and I don't generally use the phrase much, but the Read More links really do allow you to have a compact layout.
 
first time i've heard or read the phrase and ive been using the internet since 1996! :D
 
It makes sense for RSS feeds that shorten the info to a short paragraph. It can also be used for a page with ads or pics before the story. But in general, I'm not a fan of the phrase.
 
Engadget uses the phrase a lot and the first time I saw it I couldn't figure out what the hell they were talking about, then it hit me a couple of seconds later and I said to myself, "how fucking dorky". Maybe people like reading that, I don't however.
 
Because "hyperlink" is so blase.

INTERNET INVENTOR #1: Oh, what should we call this word you click to go to another page? It sort of links the pages together. What about "link?"

INTERNET INVENTOR #2: NO. F THAT BRAH. HYPERLINK!
 
I don't understand it. 99% of the time the "jump" is the next paragraph which is 0.1 inches away.
 
I've never heard of this phrase, apparently it is only used by a select few sites.
 
I hate that phrase! People think it's cool, like saying 'the cloud' when you really just mean the internet
 
tesfaye said:
Engadget uses the phrase a lot and the first time I saw it I couldn't figure out what the hell they were talking about, then it hit me a couple of seconds later and I said to myself, "how fucking dorky". Maybe people like reading that, I don't however.
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Exactly what came to mind.... agree 100%. "video after the break" and then they have the video right there underneath it! WTF....stupid.
 
You're "jumping" from one page to another when you click a link. Thus, "after the jump" is the next page. The content described "after the jump" is what you see when you "jump" to the next page. It makes sense to me. Not sure why anyone would take offense to such a thing.
 
With Engadget, they always say "after the break" and 99% of the time the YOUTUBE VIDEO plays right there, not on another page. So that wouldn't make sense in that case
 
I hate when people are annoyed by "after the jump" or "hit the jump".

Makes me wanna hit THEM...in the mouth :p
 
xorbe said:
I don't understand it. 99% of the time the "jump" is the next paragraph which is 0.1 inches away.
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Pretty much this. Although in my experience, it's more like 100%, because I have NEVER seen it used properly. Then again, sites that use it often are sites I no longer visit. Anytime I see "after the jump", it literally means to me, "quit reading, close the page, and never return".
 
I can't understand how someone couldn't understand the phrase. The words jump and skip are synonyms. If someone said," skip to the next page," that seems self explanatory. How is, "jump to the next page," any harder to understand? You certainly don't need to be a Star Wars fan to know what the word jump means. So the term, "after the jump," seem self explanatory to me.
 
Internet lore holds that the articles using that term were written by Kriss Kross and House of Pain.
 
Don't recall ever coming across it, but Ihave a knack for not retaining irrelevant bs. Slow news day.

Also: SITE CLOSED (lol)
 
BladeVenom said:
I can't understand how someone couldn't understand the phrase. The words jump and skip are synonyms. If someone said," skip to the next page," that seems self explanatory. How is, "jump to the next page," any harder to understand? You certainly don't need to be a Star Wars fan to know what the word jump means. So the term, "after the jump," seem self explanatory to me.
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According to your analogy, you are saying it wrong.... people replacing jump with skip wouldn't say that at all, they would think "after the skip" using your logic.

And that still makes no fucking sense.

It's stupid, I hope Endadget especially (and the few guys who apparently say it) read this and it goes into the abyss of 20th century lame sayings.
 
Never heard of it either.

I do find it mildly :rolleyes: that an edited cut/paste from Urban Dictionary was posted on the blog/editorial but the article's page doesn't allow text selection. I'm in your View->Source, getting your text!
 
xorbe said:
I don't understand it. 99% of the time the "jump" is the next paragraph which is 0.1 inches away.
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I have seen it most when there is an ad breaking up an article on the same page. Nothing to do with hyperlinks at all, just an indication that the article continues below.

It may also be used beside those drop downs that let you skip right to a page in a multi-page article or review. Jump to: XXXXX. Also a valid use of the term, as you are not just reading sequentially. Neither are you actually clicking on a link.
 
as a web developer i have never heard of that phrase :confused:
and for tech/geek sites?? if they mean the tech/geek sites meant for the masses that dumb stuff down like crazy so that some 10yr old can blurt out tech news at school and think that he is cool... ya, i dont go to any of those.

a link is a link, you click it, it has been that way since the 90s for me and i cant recall any other terms for it..
 
I'm kinda surprised yall haven't heard this before. Its pretty common on sites that use a format like Anandtech or Jalopnik or something where they have 2-3 paragraph blurbs for each story instead of the whole story.
 
anandtech has a link that says "Read More" which is what the majority of websites say...
 
I never made the link mental link that this had anything to do with hyperspace. I just figured it was saying follow this to the whole article...

Let's get more geeky. Hey Steve, start using "Here's your kick to the next level."
 
Use a php tag that inserts a random phrase:
See the rest after the tequila
See the rest after the LSD
See the rest after the hopscotch
See the rest after the hunting season
See the rest after the premature overclockulation
See the rest after the revolution
See the rest after the tornado
See the rest after the rabid squirrels
See the rest after the rest
See the rest after the nap
See the rest after the up down up down a b start
See the rest after the ninjas
 
i960 said:
I hate when people are annoyed by people who are annoyed by "after the jump". :D
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When I made my post, I predicted with 100% absolute positivity that someone would reply like you did...

...and I hate when people reply that way ;)
 
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