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December 10, 2022 6:28 PM

Kinja Unslideshow. With Grease/Tamper/Violentmonkey, puts those annoying Kinja slideshows all on one page.
posted by MollyRealized (9 comments total)

Alternately, you can just make the window narrower and that forces the page into "list" mode.
posted by Johnny Assay at 5:59 AM on December 11, 2022 [4 favorites]

Perhaps a bit of background information would be helpful? Like explaining what Kinja is? Why it’s such a pain? What’s all this stuff I need to install? Will it work on my {insert type of device and OS}? As it sits, a post full of unexplained links to download repositories is kind of opaque in meaning and import.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:10 AM on December 11, 2022 [6 favorites]

I was wondering the same thing as Thorzdad - but I think I know. Is Kinja the umbrella company that hosts sites like AV Club, Jezebel, etc., and are the "slide shows" the articles they do that are like "the 26 best STAR TREK villains of all time" that are presented as 26 discrete pictures and you have to click "next" to get to the next thing?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:33 AM on December 11, 2022 [2 favorites]

Kinja was created by Gawker Media, back when Gawker Media existed. It was always a love-it-or-hate-it kind of platform—I really liked a lot of things about it, but that feeling was not universal sentiment—but it was sold to Univision and then to G/O Media, which mostly serves as a front for Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that mainly exists to take over companies and squeeze them dry until only pulp remains.

Since its inception in 2019, G/O Media has mainly been known for hemorrhaging employees—most iconically when the workers at Deadspin quit en masse, but more broadly across all of its properties. The degradation of Kinja has become somewhat infamous since their takeover; its slide shows are venal, but the real iconic piece-of-shit platform functionality has been its autoplaying videos, which is so bad that it more-or-less triggered the Deadspin walkout.

Most of its properties aren't worth bothering with anymore, but it still unfortunately owns The Onion, which has been doing its best to persevere. Lotta slide shows over there now, though.
posted by Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted at 7:37 AM on December 11, 2022

The weird thing about slide shows is that everyone must know it's low-quality engagement. If I was an advertiser and you tell me your site has X number of clicks per visit or whatever the metric is, I'd say "but how much of that is slideshows."
posted by anhedonic at 7:54 AM on December 11, 2022 [1 favorite]

Are the sites where de-slidefy doesn't work Kinja? Because IME that clusterfake process accepts fewer and fewer web-sites; if that's because those slideshow sites are now Kinja, I'll be trying this out.
posted by Rash at 8:05 AM on December 11, 2022

I saw this yesterday and immediately added it to my Tampermonkey suite of scripts. I poke at Lifehacker sometimes, but since they started pushing more products rather than how to articles, I've not been there that often. Still annoying to click through individual pages worth of a photo + caption.
posted by tlwright at 3:48 PM on December 11, 2022

Google and Wikipedia exist

Based on the context clues in the post, I assumed this “Kinja” thing was one of those web-based PowerPoint alternatives that you may or may not be forced by your organization to use, and since that’s not me, I skipped the post and would not have searched for more info. With your new info (thank you), I care a little bit more but also definitely think, “oh good, I’m glad someone did this work.”

All just to say: I’m on Team A LITTLE More Context Please.
posted by TangoCharlie at 9:15 PM on December 11, 2022 [2 favorites]

Google and Wikipedia exist.

So do kindness and courtesy, and we're just asking for a bit more of them when crafting posts. Surely that's nothing you'd object to?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 3:38 AM on December 12, 2022 [1 favorite]