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Techcrunch Redesign
- Guest0918231 7y ago1. If I use my middle mouse button to open an article in a new window, it opens in the existing window. 2. If I click an article, it's displayed, and the URL is updated. If I access that URL directly, or if I right click the article and open in a new tab, it fails with an error (seems to be fixed now). 3. When viewing an article and I scroll down, it's automatically closed. I know this is a feature, but it's incredibly annoying. I really hate when the most basic website principles that always worked 20 years ago, fail to work in a modern redesign.
- chomp 7y agoWow, yeah I tested each of these (#2 I had to replicate in an incognito window) and this is really bad. These are basic, basic features that are built into browsers and HTTP, and they don't even work because the designers wanted to be clever. Awful design.
- loudmax 7y agoNavigation is working normally for me: middle click opens articles in a new tab, and I can right click and open an article in a new tab or a new window. I can also access articles by URL. I'm using Chromium. Has Techcrunch broken navigation for Firefox and Safari? Incidentally, if you check out the new site with ScriptSafe, so Javascript is disabled, it looks quite elegant.
- noeltock 7y agoIt's down with others https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1138508386704723969 https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1138508386704723969
- tablet 7y agoEndless scroll as a single navigation pattern? WTF?
- antisemiotic 7y agoOn mobile Firefox with scripts disabled it loads a new page normally on clicking "more". It never ceases to amaze me what lengths will some people go to destroy perfectly fine user experience.
- kingofspain 7y agoLooks like it’s reverted to some default WP theme.
- tlackemann 7y agoI'm curious if an A/B test was run for this. Didn't we all agree that full-screen cover images were bad UX? Especially for a news source, that seems like an odd call.
- lol768 7y agoDefinitely not, it's a bug - not a redesign.
- lol768 7y agoRelated discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158002 Seems like it impacted VIP Go? https://lobby.vip.wordpress.com/2019/06/11/503-errors-and-availability-issues-for-vip-go-sites/ https://lobby.vip.wordpress.com/2019/06/11/503-errors-and-av...
- LordAtlas 7y agoHmm, how on earth did they end up with a default Twenty Seventeen Wordpress theme? Somebody screwed up big. Edit: Yep, Automattic screwed up.
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- hprotagonist 7y agoOne of the very nice features of RSS readers is that I basically never have to care about site UX. Or, in this case, configuration errors.
- john_minsk 7y agoWhat do you do about websites that don't provide full articles in RSS?
- deca6cda37d0 7y agoOpen in browser with reader mode on. Only text. Lot of rss readers have that option
- latexr 7y agoNot the person you asked, but for sites that don’t provide an RSS feed that fits what I want, I make a short scraper that builds the feed and subscribe to that. I don’t do it often, but I’ve got enough practice (and relevant code) that when I want to, it takes only a few minutes. Not a practical solution for most people, but it works well for me.
- gnicholas 7y agoThis isn't loading for me at all in Safari and Brave (even with "shields down"). All I get is "An error occurred with this part of the page, sorry for the inconvenience." It displays the proper page for a brief second, then the above message. Is anyone else getting this? EDIT: now working for me across the board. There's also this potential explanation for the outage: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/wordpress-vip-go-sites-are-experience-outages-yes-ours-included/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/wordpress-vip-go-sites-are...
- sidchilling 7y agoYep, for me too on iOS Safari
- pier25 7y agoMe too on Chrome
- jbergstroem 7y agoFirefox (68) macos user. Same here.
- iBelieve 7y agoSame here, Firefox 66 on Arch Linux.
- empath75 7y agoAol still has the best developers I see, lol.
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- realPubkey 7y agoSame on plain chrome on android
- trca 7y agoSame for me, MacOS and Chrome...
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- thomaswang 7y agoAn error occurred with this part of the page, sorry for the inconvenience. Atleast that's an improvement :P
- clay_the_ripper 7y agoThe tech crunch iOS app as an absolute travesty. It can’t even load images, and constantly redirects you to the mobile site. It’s also riddled with bugs. It’s been that way for about 2 years. Hopefully they will adresss that along with this.
- rchaud 7y agoIs there any particular reason you downloaded the app? I've found that news site apps are usually a garbage fire of silent user-hostile permissions and constant notifications. These usually don't happen on the websites themselves, as users click "no" as soon as the "Location" or "Notifications" dialog box opens.
- mcjiggerlog 7y agoIf you disable JS then it's actually really nice. If that were the default then it would have been a great redesign.
- latexr 7y agoI was going to comment the same. I really liked the design and wondered if enabling JS would make it different (not seeing a logo was a clue I wasn’t seeing the full design). I turned it one and was immediately disappointed.
- mithr 7y agoWhen I scroll past the bottom of an article and then scroll back up, the page seamlessly redirects me to the main page mid-scroll... that's incredibly irritating!
- dandigangi 7y agoFunny - they think their Ad Blocker popup is going to get me to buy but I'll just stop reading. How Medium-esque of you.
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- westondeboer 7y agoPi-hole is amazing.