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> Animation makes this even worse, because the user has to sit and wait while the site slowly delivers information in animated word-sized chunks. This is exact

by qb45 11y ago

> Animation makes this even worse, because the user has to sit and wait while the site slowly delivers information in animated word-sized chunks. This is exactly what pissed me off within the first 3 seconds, that there is no way to see everything they have to say without waiting until the animation goes whole cycle and then waiting some more to make sure I didn't miss anything. It looks like they took design tips from people optimizing for addictiveness, not usefulness. Hint: you don't need their tips if you are a FOSS project and actually lose money on people spending more time on your site than necessary.

snvzz 11y ago
> addictiveness How so? The forced smooth scrolling thing makes reading the page really annoying, and I strongly feel like closing it and never opening it again.
- qb45 11y ago
  Maybe addictiveness was a bad word. I was under impression that rewarding people for patiently watching your animations may be an attempt at exploiting Sunken Cost Fallacy or even just giving them some time to forget about the rest of the world. The reason I thought that was because this site somehow reminds me of all the sites nagging me to buy something and I suppose there are reasons why those behave the way they do.
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vicmarcal-ros 11y ago
Hi! You can move through animations thanks to the slider below it. So you can jump to the animation you want to see again. On the other hand, a home page is just that...the main page any kind of visitors will arrive, from great IT guys (as you) to no-IT guys at all. If you know about the project already it's pretty obvious the level of the info in the home page has been lowered to ease the understanding of the scope of the project. Tell a non-IT guy we're creating an operating system clone aiming NT architecture and they won't catch what is this about at all. All the tech details are waiting you in the new "Developing" section of the site then ;)
- patates 11y ago
  Please, at least get rid of the scroll hijacking. It is extremely annoying. Also why are you serving 4K lines of CSS, embedded on every page? I also hope you could use a static site generator instead of Drupal (which definitely is an overkill for such a site).
- qb45 11y ago
  Frankly, those animations are so simple that they could be replaced with static images (the first one would need a split in two). This way I can choose which one to watch simply by moving my eyeballs or maybe scrolling in case of small screens. Two simple, widely know and efficient interfaces. Maybe I shouldn't be too harsh, after all it was me who as a teenager hacked this panel displaying information about currently selected file in Windows 98 Explorer to slide in/out during navigation like menus in StarCraft, but c'mon - it's one thing to create such stuff and another to actually really use it. Even I couldn't bear those sliding panels for long :)
jeditobe 11y ago
they have removed some animations now.

by qb45 11y ago

snvzz 11y ago

> addictiveness How so? The forced smooth scrolling thing makes reading the page really annoying, and I strongly feel like closing it and never opening it again.

qb45 11y ago
Maybe addictiveness was a bad word. I was under impression that rewarding people for patiently watching your animations may be an attempt at exploiting Sunken Cost Fallacy or even just giving them some time to forget about the rest of the world. The reason I thought that was because this site somehow reminds me of all the sites nagging me to buy something and I suppose there are reasons why those behave the way they do.

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vicmarcal-ros 11y ago

Hi! You can move through animations thanks to the slider below it. So you can jump to the animation you want to see again. On the other hand, a home page is just that...the main page any kind of visitors will arrive, from great IT guys (as you) to no-IT guys at all. If you know about the project already it's pretty obvious the level of the info in the home page has been lowered to ease the understanding of the scope of the project. Tell a non-IT guy we're creating an operating system clone aiming NT architecture and they won't catch what is this about at all. All the tech details are waiting you in the new "Developing" section of the site then ;)

patates 11y ago
Please, at least get rid of the scroll hijacking. It is extremely annoying. Also why are you serving 4K lines of CSS, embedded on every page? I also hope you could use a static site generator instead of Drupal (which definitely is an overkill for such a site).
qb45 11y ago
Frankly, those animations are so simple that they could be replaced with static images (the first one would need a split in two). This way I can choose which one to watch simply by moving my eyeballs or maybe scrolling in case of small screens. Two simple, widely know and efficient interfaces. Maybe I shouldn't be too harsh, after all it was me who as a teenager hacked this panel displaying information about currently selected file in Windows 98 Explorer to slide in/out during navigation like menus in StarCraft, but c'mon - it's one thing to create such stuff and another to actually really use it. Even I couldn't bear those sliding panels for long :)

jeditobe 11y ago

they have removed some animations now.