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Below is an example from Bloomberg.com (Bloomberg Business mag) that may help you. It is also an interesting angle on what code is and what devs do.
The points here are:
1. this is a long article
2. it is a very well-written article.
3. I was interested in the article but the length still made it extremely overwhelming.
4. the author uses all kinds of interactive techniques in the article and it still feels overwhelming.
5. the author is a professional writer and the length is still almost like a blunt weapon on the brain 
Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg[^]
So, my answer, -- even though I break it myself -- is break it up into parts.
Great question, by the way.
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If you've already written the article, and don't feel like breaking it up into a series of smaller articles, you could add a table-of-contents at the top, which allows the user to click a link to take them to the various chapters. At each chapter, you can also add a "Back to top" link that lets them return directly to the TOC again.
However, the less observant retard reader won't notice these features, and will still dog on you for writing such a long article. It seems people's attention spans are getting shorter every day, and just "wants da codez".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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What about
5) CodeProject provides a mechanism whereby authors can specify page breaks which allows readers to view it in one piece or page-by-page.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Oooohhh, I like that one.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If you do that, please have a way to have distinct URLs per page. So you can link to a specific page from an external site.
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Definitely
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: CodeProject provides a mechanism whereby authors can specify page breaks which allows readers to view it in one piece or page-by-page.
That would be cool. Plus an "e-book" section. 
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Consider releasing it as a book 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Consider releasing it as a book
I've contacted SyncFusion. 
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I only look at the photos...
(reverse playboy reference here).
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I only look at the photos...
That's how I used to read Scientific American. The articles in Hefner's mag were much better.
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Doesn't matter as long as it's short.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Doesn't matter as long as it's short.
Sorry, can't be done.
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If there are logical parts, break them apart, otherwise I prefer them in one piece.
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I'd prefer one long article, but if it is 120 pages, surely there are different aspects that can be split off into different articles. If split up, each article should be a standalone issue that is complete. I don't want to read (or print (?!)) multiple things for one thought process.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Is it long because of actual comment or is it repetitive? The latter being the biggest sin of anyone thinking like a PhD or a "published" writer (paid by the word and all that.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Is it long because of actual comment or is it repetitive?
Content. Besides covering the spec and its complexities, contradictions, and ambiguities, it covers implementation, unit tests, and a demo, which in itself requires a lightweight server implementation.
But critique for yourself.
Marc
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I skimmed the article (the subject matter doesn't interest me); I say it definitely should be split into a series of at least two, if not three, articles.
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... the text (probably translated) of the spam posts are horrendous and sometimes funny, makes you wonder if we should let the through the moderation process to make the day brighter
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They do seem to have been translated from Marketese to English via Swahili and Norwegian, don't they?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... gained in translation ...
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No, in all languages; no.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I run an email server at home, and there is this one spambot that tries to send us this ridiculous spam, about 4 times a minute, 24 hours a day, for 3 years now. It is 100% rejected, every single one, easily. But they never slow down. At some point you would think they would realize that if the first million got rejected, they are kind of wasting there time on us.
Dense mother f'rs.
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