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Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they'v
by umaar 6y ago
Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif.
Really curious as to why.
- jug 6y agoHaha, it's janky and cropping parts of some logotypes too. Totally against the otherwise smooth animations and style in the rest of the page. It looks bolted on and I wouldn't be surprised it was a late decision to showcase some publishers and added by non web devs...
- umaar 6y agoWas making me dizzy looking at it! Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon.
- phkahler 6y ago>> Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon Why? You and the parent comment seem to imply that there are no crappy web devs, or at least none at FB. There are crappy people in every profession, as well as mostly good people who are crappy at just some aspects of their job.
- marban 6y agoBenefit-cost ratio of owning your own CDN.
- Sodaware 6y agoBring back the `<marquee>` tag.
- black3r 6y agoand when you click on how it works, it greets you with a 31MB gif
- corytheboyd 6y agoAnd it looks terrible. I’d guess that this site was thrown together by an outside agency, as these landing pages usually are by companies. In my experience these agencies don’t care about anything but getting paid, and will yield absolutely trash. And why wouldn’t they? They never have to deal with it again and the company hiring them probably doesn’t care, it’s just a marketing landing page. Then the company wants to change it some day and thinks it can just be handed off to engineering, because “it’s just code” and “how hard could it be” and fuck now I’m just sad. I am so done with tech lol, I can’t wait to get out.
- umaar 6y agoYeah it was stuttering, which is why I was inspecting it. I assumed it was a CSS transition, but without hardware acceleration. Outside agency makes a lot of sense to me. When you say get out of tech, you wouldn't happen to mean on a ranch would you? Been seeing more and more references to tech folk wanting to escape to such places ha!
- corytheboyd 6y agoI know it’s such a cliche to want to leave tech for the ranch haha. No I just plan to pursue some of my own adventures that still involve technology, just outside of the Silicon Valley tech startup world.
- cvhashim 6y agoYou sound pretty jaded. But your thoughts don't really match my experience with software agencies as you mentioned. I previously worked for a software consulting shop/agency. Our mindset wasn't just build some crap software and deliver as you might imagine, we actually put care and effort into our work despite half the team being freelancers who might never work on the product again.
- corytheboyd 6y agoI too have worked with such agencies that actually care, and of course they exist. I guess I wanted my hot take HN comment and didn’t take the time to explicitly state that not every software consulting agency produces low quality work. If you don’t mind me asking, did you work on marketing landing pages like this one or something else? These marketing pages in particular are what I am calling out.