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The only reason I read even a few lines of this was to see if the layout was supposed to ironical. It wasn't. I don't know what was going on with my scrollbar b

The only reason I read even a few lines of this was to see if the layout was supposed to ironical. It wasn't. I don't know what was going on with my scrollbar but they managed to jack it up better than any site I've ever been to.

boubiyeah 10y ago
This is "infinite scrolling" where content come and go as you scroll for better performances. On a good implementation, the scrollbar characteristics can be made to look fine and stable though.
sidegrid 10y ago
Is ironical a word?
- teh_klev 10y ago
  Apparently so: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5015/ironic-vs-ironical http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5015/ironic-vs-ir...
- sjwright 10y ago
  It's a string of letters that convey a meaning, so yes, it's a word. It also has the blessing of being listed in most dictionaries. Both forms, ironic and ironical are valid and in casual settings tend to be used interchangeably. In a more formal sense, one would say a work that uses irony can be describe as ironical, whereas the events themselves are ironic.
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- lucideer 10y ago
  It is. "ironic" was a French loanword, but when it was shoehorned into English, forms like "ironically" made the redundant addition of "-al" natural for some. Both have been in common use for many centuries. I'm still far more used to the terser "ironic" myself though. "ironical" seems alien and strange to me.
- bryanrasmussen 10y ago
  I thought ironical was the word that describes what one is doing when one makes an ironic statement? That is to say when someone says something ironic, they are not themselves ironic, rather they are being ironical.
- jasonkostempski 10y ago
  It's the ironic way to use the word. Using a word to sound smart but using it incorrectly and mispronouncing it, is ironic. I think.
falcolas 10y ago
Agreed. Light grey text on a royal purple background isn't great, but it could be worse; it could be burnt orange on that same purple. Wait, it has that too. And 3/4 screen ads. And animated images. And scrolljacking And autoplaying videos (something they argued against themselves). What a disaster.
- throwanem 10y ago
  I keep oscillating between "this is literally the most tone-deaf thing I've ever seen on the web" and "this is an utterly unprecedented new sublimity of metapresentation".
- ryandrake 10y ago
  Not to mention the forced tiny horizontal width of the actual content. I have a 27" monitor and the text was constrained to a ~4" strip down the center of the page. Indeed, the web looks like shit.
CM30 10y ago
Wait, it's not ironic? I thought it was like Web Pages That Suck. Where the layout was bad because you 'don't expect to read about bad websites on a well designed one' or something. Huh, guess this is a serious effort.
threepipeproblm 10y ago
It's not intentionally ironic. Whatever is going on in design right now is a bit perplexing. I have personally found Eli Schiff's insight useful in parsing it. He explains it in terms of designers' self-hatred, lol. Here was his comment when The Outline launched -- https://twitter.com/eli_schiff/status/805775141825290241 https://twitter.com/eli_schiff/status/805775141825290241
bbctol 10y ago
I've actually been told that the graphic design of The Outline is supposed to be the cool feature that gets people coming back to the site. Which is weird, as it's... awful.

boubiyeah 10y ago

This is "infinite scrolling" where content come and go as you scroll for better performances. On a good implementation, the scrollbar characteristics can be made to look fine and stable though.

sidegrid 10y ago

Is ironical a word?

teh_klev 10y ago
Apparently so: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5015/ironic-vs-ironical http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5015/ironic-vs-ir...
sjwright 10y ago
It's a string of letters that convey a meaning, so yes, it's a word. It also has the blessing of being listed in most dictionaries. Both forms, ironic and ironical are valid and in casual settings tend to be used interchangeably. In a more formal sense, one would say a work that uses irony can be describe as ironical, whereas the events themselves are ironic.
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lucideer 10y ago
It is. "ironic" was a French loanword, but when it was shoehorned into English, forms like "ironically" made the redundant addition of "-al" natural for some. Both have been in common use for many centuries. I'm still far more used to the terser "ironic" myself though. "ironical" seems alien and strange to me.
bryanrasmussen 10y ago
I thought ironical was the word that describes what one is doing when one makes an ironic statement? That is to say when someone says something ironic, they are not themselves ironic, rather they are being ironical.
jasonkostempski 10y ago
It's the ironic way to use the word. Using a word to sound smart but using it incorrectly and mispronouncing it, is ironic. I think.

falcolas 10y ago

Agreed. Light grey text on a royal purple background isn't great, but it could be worse; it could be burnt orange on that same purple. Wait, it has that too. And 3/4 screen ads. And animated images. And scrolljacking And autoplaying videos (something they argued against themselves). What a disaster.

throwanem 10y ago
I keep oscillating between "this is literally the most tone-deaf thing I've ever seen on the web" and "this is an utterly unprecedented new sublimity of metapresentation".
ryandrake 10y ago
Not to mention the forced tiny horizontal width of the actual content. I have a 27" monitor and the text was constrained to a ~4" strip down the center of the page. Indeed, the web looks like shit.

CM30 10y ago

Wait, it's not ironic? I thought it was like Web Pages That Suck. Where the layout was bad because you 'don't expect to read about bad websites on a well designed one' or something. Huh, guess this is a serious effort.

threepipeproblm 10y ago

It's not intentionally ironic. Whatever is going on in design right now is a bit perplexing. I have personally found Eli Schiff's insight useful in parsing it. He explains it in terms of designers' self-hatred, lol. Here was his comment when The Outline launched -- https://twitter.com/eli_schiff/status/805775141825290241 https://twitter.com/eli_schiff/status/805775141825290241

bbctol 10y ago

I've actually been told that the graphic design of The Outline is supposed to be the cool feature that gets people coming back to the site. Which is weird, as it's... awful.