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It might sound harsh to you, but you'd feel differently if you sat in front of my computer. Each misclick costs me 1-2 seconds of layout recalculation (100% on

It might sound harsh to you, but you'd feel differently if you sat in front of my computer. Each misclick costs me 1-2 seconds of layout recalculation (100% on 1 core). For reference, my computer is AMD X250 from ~2011, 4GB RAM (enough), and running Firefox on Debian 8. Using chromium it's a tiny little quicker, but still annoying. They could easily stop the content bumping and the darkening "please subscribe" overlays.

van_gaal 10y ago
sure. talking to people on the internet only just works...
- jstimpfle 10y ago
  This was probably a witty reference to the article. Can't appreciate it since I can't bring myself to suffer the website...
merb 10y ago
well I have a mbp late 2013 and it costs me 1-2 seconds (16 gb ram and core i7 3rd gen...)
56245623456 10y ago
Try disbling Javascript, I disabled it by default and the site is really fast for me and I can read the document just fine. I enabled JS and have to agree that now it is pretty sluggish.
squeaky-clean 10y ago
I don't understand the need for expensive animations or the imagined use case of opening/closing the comments sidebar a hundred times while reading the paper. Why does opening one note hide all indicators of other notes? (It seems if you're reading at above ~1500px browser width, it shows them as small dots, but removes the preview text of the note). I should just be able to leave it open and have new notes/comments appear as I scroll past the relevant section. Why does clicking anywhere on the document, or highlighting any text open up a "write a new comment" sidebar? Do they really think there are going to be more users writing comments on a paper than there will be copy-pasting a few sentences from it? It feels like the primary purpose of the site is for users who want to comment on papers, and not users who just want to read papers. For the latter group, it's a really poor experience.

van_gaal 10y ago

sure. talking to people on the internet only just works...

jstimpfle 10y ago
This was probably a witty reference to the article. Can't appreciate it since I can't bring myself to suffer the website...

merb 10y ago

well I have a mbp late 2013 and it costs me 1-2 seconds (16 gb ram and core i7 3rd gen...)

56245623456 10y ago

Try disbling Javascript, I disabled it by default and the site is really fast for me and I can read the document just fine. I enabled JS and have to agree that now it is pretty sluggish.

squeaky-clean 10y ago

I don't understand the need for expensive animations or the imagined use case of opening/closing the comments sidebar a hundred times while reading the paper. Why does opening one note hide all indicators of other notes? (It seems if you're reading at above ~1500px browser width, it shows them as small dots, but removes the preview text of the note). I should just be able to leave it open and have new notes/comments appear as I scroll past the relevant section. Why does clicking anywhere on the document, or highlighting any text open up a "write a new comment" sidebar? Do they really think there are going to be more users writing comments on a paper than there will be copy-pasting a few sentences from it? It feels like the primary purpose of the site is for users who want to comment on papers, and not users who just want to read papers. For the latter group, it's a really poor experience.