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Same article on a website that is not awful http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176132/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon%2C_exhibit_one_in_any_future_american_war_crimes_t

by eric_h 11y ago

Same article on a website that is not awful http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176132/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon%2C_exhibit_one_in_any_future_american_war_crimes_trial/ http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176132/tomgram%3A_rebecca_go...

dang 11y ago
OK, we changed to that from http://www.thenation.com/article/the-cia-waterboarded-the-wrong-man-83-times-in-1-month/ http://www.thenation.com/article/the-cia-waterboarded-the-wr.... We'll also use the article's title (which you have to scroll down to see), which doesn't suffer from the problem users have pointed out with the Nation's title.
Strom 11y ago
Good thing I clicked on it before it was changed. I have the complete opposite reaction. The Nation's page has a nice picture to set the theme and uses a wider space with a bigger font, while the TomDispatch page looks like something from 1999.
- eric_h 11y ago
  I agree that the design of the nation's site is better/more modern. However, when I landed on the site, I was able to read the first sentence before a modal subscription form popped up. I clicked the little x button in the top right of that modal, and it did a full page load redirecting me to an article about hillary clinton, and then popped the subscription modal again. I clicked the x button again and it did the same fucking thing, so I gave them the email address go.fuck.yourself@gmail.com, found the article I was trying to read and noticed that it was sourced from the link I dropped above. That page loaded quickly and showed me what I wanted to see, the content. /rant
  - Strom 11y ago
    That does sound like a bad experience indeed. I didn't get that myself, and can't seem to replicate it now in incognito either. Perhaps geo-targeting? Pop-ups suck, and I wish my browser's pop-up blocker would also block these inline e-mail asking dialogs in every site.
    - eric_h 11y ago
      I've been meaning to whip up a browser extension that streamlines the Open web inspector - find offending node on page - delete div element work flow. There are some out there that sort of do what I want, but I really just want to right click on the annoying popup/ad/whatever and select delete from the contextual menu, or something like that.

by eric_h 11y ago

dang 11y ago

OK, we changed to that from http://www.thenation.com/article/the-cia-waterboarded-the-wrong-man-83-times-in-1-month/ http://www.thenation.com/article/the-cia-waterboarded-the-wr.... We'll also use the article's title (which you have to scroll down to see), which doesn't suffer from the problem users have pointed out with the Nation's title.

Strom 11y ago

Good thing I clicked on it before it was changed. I have the complete opposite reaction. The Nation's page has a nice picture to set the theme and uses a wider space with a bigger font, while the TomDispatch page looks like something from 1999.

eric_h 11y ago
I agree that the design of the nation's site is better/more modern. However, when I landed on the site, I was able to read the first sentence before a modal subscription form popped up. I clicked the little x button in the top right of that modal, and it did a full page load redirecting me to an article about hillary clinton, and then popped the subscription modal again. I clicked the x button again and it did the same fucking thing, so I gave them the email address go.fuck.yourself@gmail.com, found the article I was trying to read and noticed that it was sourced from the link I dropped above. That page loaded quickly and showed me what I wanted to see, the content. /rant
- Strom 11y ago
  That does sound like a bad experience indeed. I didn't get that myself, and can't seem to replicate it now in incognito either. Perhaps geo-targeting? Pop-ups suck, and I wish my browser's pop-up blocker would also block these inline e-mail asking dialogs in every site.
  - eric_h 11y ago
    I've been meaning to whip up a browser extension that streamlines the Open web inspector - find offending node on page - delete div element work flow. There are some out there that sort of do what I want, but I really just want to right click on the annoying popup/ad/whatever and select delete from the contextual menu, or something like that.