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Can you elaborate a bit on why you think it's terrible?

• Bartweiss 9y ago
  My first-glance reaction was "eh, they cleaned it up, looks fine". I'd like a slightly wider text column, but it's not a big deal. But the page interactivity is poisonously bad. - There's a share bar at the bottom which collapses distractingly on first scroll. - The share bar is hover-sensitive, and 'expands' by changing what's under your cursor from a menu icon to a Facebook share link. I'd call "change under cursor" a dark pattern, especially for a social share link. - The share menu icon looks like a "go to top of page" button, which lead me to click it accidentally. Even if you notice the hover event and scroll over to its new location, it animates as a button but does nothing! - There's an in-page 'X' to close back to the TechCrunch homepage, which is odd. And it's an overlay that scrolls downpage with you, which is annoying - especially since it sits on top of images. - It's got an animation on the X to show how far you've read, which is distracting and pointless. When you hit the article bottom, it does a dramatic and annoying transition to a checkmark. - If you scroll down too far, the page closes. It takes you back to the homepage. Scrolling moves within a page, and should always be reversible by scrolling back. Instead, they put a damn redirect on a scroll event! - And in 'dark patterns' territory, there's content below the bottom of the scroll event! You're actively baited into triggering a terrible mechanic I've never seen anywhere else.