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Worst parts: * Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed. * Reading progress meter is too small and out of view. Should be able to

Worst parts: * Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed. * Reading progress meter is too small and out of view. Should be able to feel the progress from peripheral vision. * Titles in list view are squished and difficult to read quickly. * Article preview text is almost always useless. If you insist on having something here, consider 3 highlight bullets. * Top-level navigation is now even more prominent on desktop when I venture a guess that less than 5% of users ever touch it.

TremendousJudge 9y ago
>Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed. That's absolutely insane! Who had this idea?
thatswrong0 9y ago
> * Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed. Yeah seriously, what on earth is this. What if I want to scroll back up and read some tidbit earlier in the article? Well, it actually _navigates_ you away, so you have to hit the back button - can't just scroll back to where you were, even though it doesn't seem like you navigated at all. It's fucking confusing and it takes control away from me that I have on literally every other website. And there's no indication that it's going to navigate you away besides a little check mark. Who the heck thought this was a good idea?
- Bartweiss 9y ago
  This is the first time I've ever been upset that a page loaded too fast, because a slow redirect at least would have showed me what happened. Instead, I spent several seconds absolutely baffled and unsure how to get to the article. Since no sane person would ever put a page redirect on a scroll event, I figured it had to be some kind of overlay!
- singularity2001 9y ago
  just tried it. yes, W.T.H.?
Bartweiss 9y ago
I'm not a huge fan of progress meters generally, since I hate in-page animations. But if you're going to have one, the thin bar growing left to right seems like it can't really be improved on. The point of motion actually shifts, so I can judge progress without ever focusing on it. All this gave me was "something in the annoying X button overlay is moving", which was useless and also worsened the impact of an already bad overlay.
gremlinsinc 9y ago
Why not keep current article in top and load main feed below, heck they can even hide it till you scroll back to where it 'should be'...but back button to get back to it? Fuck that, I'll just use a different site for tech news.

TremendousJudge 9y ago

>Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed. That's absolutely insane! Who had this idea?

thatswrong0 9y ago

> * Scrolling to the end of an article jolts you back into the main feed. Yeah seriously, what on earth is this. What if I want to scroll back up and read some tidbit earlier in the article? Well, it actually _navigates_ you away, so you have to hit the back button - can't just scroll back to where you were, even though it doesn't seem like you navigated at all. It's fucking confusing and it takes control away from me that I have on literally every other website. And there's no indication that it's going to navigate you away besides a little check mark. Who the heck thought this was a good idea?

Bartweiss 9y ago
This is the first time I've ever been upset that a page loaded too fast, because a slow redirect at least would have showed me what happened. Instead, I spent several seconds absolutely baffled and unsure how to get to the article. Since no sane person would ever put a page redirect on a scroll event, I figured it had to be some kind of overlay!
singularity2001 9y ago
just tried it. yes, W.T.H.?

Bartweiss 9y ago

I'm not a huge fan of progress meters generally, since I hate in-page animations. But if you're going to have one, the thin bar growing left to right seems like it can't really be improved on. The point of motion actually shifts, so I can judge progress without ever focusing on it. All this gave me was "something in the annoying X button overlay is moving", which was useless and also worsened the impact of an already bad overlay.

gremlinsinc 9y ago

Why not keep current article in top and load main feed below, heck they can even hide it till you scroll back to where it 'should be'...but back button to get back to it? Fuck that, I'll just use a different site for tech news.