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What a fantastically designed and executed site! I love the attention to detail all the way across the responsive sizes. Great work.

Implicated 11y ago
The grantland site is one of my favorites, both in the content (I generally stick to their sports stuff) and in the delivery.
RobertoG 11y ago
I was thinking about the reasons this article is HN's first page. When the article is not about technology or startups, is it because the site is well executed or because the subject is interesting? Probably both. I would like to point another reason: the Gracie jiu-jitsu empire is an example of well executed and successful start up. Their marketing techniques are remarkable. When one of the Gracie brothers opened his school in my city, he offered a considerable quantity of money to any local fighter that won him. Then, he beat the first guy that accepted pretty bad, not serious injured but it was not nice. Result: no more challenges, brand exposure, successful marketing.
so0k 11y ago
except if you are half way and resize the window, then maximize - it fails (chrome on windows 10)
- repsilat 11y ago
  I couldn't read the article at all -- there was a big blue "title page" that I couldn't get to go away by scrolling down or clicking anywhere. It got better when I resized the page, though only somewhat -- some page widths did "nice" things (like having a simple header at the top), but others gave the awful expanding blue header thing. With that header I'd scroll down to get to the content, then I'd have to scroll back up again to get to the content that I'd scrolled past :-/
mrmondo 11y ago
Couldn't agree more, I see that it's actually just built on top of Wordpress too which is pretty impressive. Great design - very captivating.
carapace 11y ago
No. I typically browse with JS turned off and the scrolling doesn't work. It is therefore broken and poorly executed. This is a presentation delivered through the web but it is not a web site.

Implicated 11y ago

The grantland site is one of my favorites, both in the content (I generally stick to their sports stuff) and in the delivery.

RobertoG 11y ago

I was thinking about the reasons this article is HN's first page. When the article is not about technology or startups, is it because the site is well executed or because the subject is interesting? Probably both. I would like to point another reason: the Gracie jiu-jitsu empire is an example of well executed and successful start up. Their marketing techniques are remarkable. When one of the Gracie brothers opened his school in my city, he offered a considerable quantity of money to any local fighter that won him. Then, he beat the first guy that accepted pretty bad, not serious injured but it was not nice. Result: no more challenges, brand exposure, successful marketing.

so0k 11y ago

except if you are half way and resize the window, then maximize - it fails (chrome on windows 10)

repsilat 11y ago
I couldn't read the article at all -- there was a big blue "title page" that I couldn't get to go away by scrolling down or clicking anywhere. It got better when I resized the page, though only somewhat -- some page widths did "nice" things (like having a simple header at the top), but others gave the awful expanding blue header thing. With that header I'd scroll down to get to the content, then I'd have to scroll back up again to get to the content that I'd scrolled past :-/

mrmondo 11y ago

Couldn't agree more, I see that it's actually just built on top of Wordpress too which is pretty impressive. Great design - very captivating.

carapace 11y ago

No. I typically browse with JS turned off and the scrolling doesn't work. It is therefore broken and poorly executed. This is a presentation delivered through the web but it is not a web site.