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Wow, this is just far beyond terrible web design. On a 1920x1080 monitor I have to scroll down four and a half entire screen heights before I get to the text of
by einr 7y ago
Wow, this is just far beyond terrible web design. On a 1920x1080 monitor I have to scroll down four and a half entire screen heights before I get to the text of the article. The headline alone takes up about half the screen...
- Santosh83 7y agoOn a 1366x768 laptop it is three screen lengths for me. But this seems to be the common format for news/blog articles these days, there is nothing particularly egregious about this site...
- blackoil 7y agoOn mobile just 1.5 screen. Do these hero image valuable for SEO or are they just for looks?
- reallydontask 7y ago> But this seems to be the common format for news/blog articles these days, there is nothing particularly egregious about this site... normalization of deviance, i'd guess
- cs02rm0 7y agoIt's pretty obnoxious on a 5k2k screen even.
- yoz-y 7y agoAlso what is the value added by these massive hero images? I had to stare at the top image for a few seconds to realize what was on it anyways.
- jsinai 7y agoSeems like a good strategy for getting comments on HN
- Jaruzel 7y agoUsing Chrome dev tools (F12) I can see that it only looks any good (and that's a relative term) on an iPhone X, and a Pixel 2 XL. Even then only the hero image and the title is visible.
- snowwrestler 7y agoWhy is scrolling bad?