text wall

Dense unformatted writing

A text wall is an unbroken mass of writing with no paragraph breaks, making it difficult to read.

The term is common in online contexts where someone posts a dense block of text without formatting: Nobody's going to read that text wall.

The visual effect resembles a solid wall rather than organized prose.

overwhelming

unreadable

Cannot be deciphered

exhausting · TL;DR · skimmed · scrolling · endless · monotonous · dense · off-putting · inaccessible · unapproachable

communication

rant

Angry prolonged outburst

meandering · unfocused · stream-of-consciousness · monologue · info-dump · overexplaining · tangential · digressive · unedited · unsolicited

formatting

unbroken

Not damaged or interrupted

unformatted · unstyled · single-spaced · justified · cramped · cluttered · compressed · continuous · unspaced · featureless

digital

message

Transmitted communication

  • emailDigital written communication
  • commentBrief stated opinion
  • postVertical structural beam

reply · chat · thread · DM · forum · inbox · notification · screen · copy-paste · spam

Opposites
visual formatting and readability

text wallbulleted list

Marked enumeration of items

white space · bite-sized chunks

content density and brevity

text wallconcise writing

Brief, efficient expression

brief summary · summary · one-liner · quick note · blurb

communication medium

text wallinfographic

Visual data presentation

video · diagram · meme · chart · graphic

Family

text, wall, texts, textual, textile, textiles, texture, textures, textured

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G