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Is it just me, or is the UX of this page hostile? I have to scroll my scroll-wheel way too many times just to get to the next section, I couldn't even drag the

Is it just me, or is the UX of this page hostile? I have to scroll my scroll-wheel way too many times just to get to the next section, I couldn't even drag their little scroll indicator to move between them.

crooked-v 5y ago
I closed the page after about ten seconds for exactly that reason.
riedel 5y ago
Not only you and not only this issue: On my Fennec browser on Android it was also impossible to scroll because rendering seemed really slow. So I think they overdid that revamping a bit.
- bmlzootown 5y ago
  The site brought my S10+ to a screeching halt. I had to force-kill Harmonic, the HN client I use on my phone, just to get out of it. Site preloading via an in-app webview is nice until you happen upon a site like this.
BadOakOx 5y ago
I tried to open it on mobile and it was unbearably laggy.
thrdbndndn 5y ago
It literally freezes my browser when opening it.
- icelancer 5y ago
  Same. I thought Chrome crashed, but it stalled for just 5 seconds.
superasn 5y ago
Yeah one of the bad landing pages. 1) Explains nothing: "something big is happening." 2) Hides the scrollbar 3) Spikes the CPU usage I closed the tab after this but I'm sure there is more :/
- gorbachev 5y ago
  The "new" owner of winamp has been saying they're about to unleash something awesome ever since about 2014 or so.
feketegy 5y ago
It's a bad landing page, imho.
0x00000000 5y ago
I only clicked because I was hoping the page would be a cool relic from the 90s but instead I was visually assaulted by four full screen autoplay videos and a cookie pop up obstructing 75% of the laggy page. Would not visit again.
- nonameking2026 5y ago
  For you my friend. https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.winamp.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.winamp.com/
  - squarefoot 5y ago
    A breath of fresh air. When will they learn...
- tuoret 5y ago
  Ironically it's the kind of terrible modern UX design that would make me want to use classic Winamp in the first place (if foobar2000 wasn't a thing).
  - 1_player 5y ago
    Whoever is Winamp today, what they want to revive is not their old cool audio player, but just ride on the name and sell some modern piece of crap that has nothing to do with classic Winamp.
    - SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
      I imagine that in the age of streaming music it would be a hard sell to produce a new offline music player.
      - smolder 5y ago
        Yeah, and we don't really need one, either. Winamp5 and VLC and others all still work fine for those of us who keep offline collections.
sprkwd 5y ago
Why do web pages have to be so… exciting?
- ehnto 5y ago
  A bit of a cross between exceptionalism and the ever increasing feature scope of browsers. We're delivering fully fledged 3D video games and video streaming apps via the web, pretty much anything is possible, and marketing/design/product development teams can see that and want to leverage it. I much prefer simple text/css websites, but here we are in 2021, where the web browser is the most ubiquitous software delivery platform on the planet.
ruuda 5y ago
Works fine with js disabled
zephyr9 5y ago
I see a large box that simply has two buttons: "Accept" and "Decline". What am I accepting or declining? Does it even matter at this point?
- sva_ 5y ago
  A kind of Kafkaesque webdesign
trog 5y ago
Website is unusable on my Pixel 3 so I have no idea how they've butchered Winamp, which is probably something I should be thankful for
- chaosharmonic 5y ago
  The website also has no screenshots and is advertising a private beta, so we have no idea how they've butchered Winamp either.
awill88 5y ago
Have you ever visited an Apple product page?
- zekica 5y ago
  At least Apple's product pages use normal scroll functionality. This one is completely broken.
jonnycomputer 5y ago
No, it is not just you. If this is a harbinger of what this new winamp will look like, ugh.
- azeirah 5y ago
  Doubt it to be honest, if they're rebuilding Winamp from scratch then maybe. Otherwise, I'd expect it to be built on top of the existing Winamp source code which is all C++ and not extremely over designed CSS and Javascript
  - Liquid_Fire 5y ago
    The webpage gives me exactly zero expectation that this will be in any way based on the original Winamp. Furthermore, the original Winamp was Windows-only. For anything like this to be successful today it needs to be a webapp and/or a mobile app, which more than likely means starting from scratch.
    - azeirah 5y ago
      Good points about needing to launch on multiple platforms, that might indeed mean it'll be rewritten. We'll see
- Minor49er 5y ago
  Bloated, yet overly simplistic? Maybe this is really just the relaunch of the Zune player
kburman 5y ago
Everything wrong with the current web has been put into a single page. It should be used as benchmark on how bad you can design.
- aasasd 5y ago
  Perhaps you haven't seen https://userinyerface.com https://userinyerface.com
ehnto 5y ago
I would love to join the discussion but it would seem this website exceeds the performance capabilities of my 4k capable gaming rig.
- millzlane 5y ago
  I'm on a 1080 rig. It was bad, it was't that bad. But I also pause animations too.
  - nindalf 5y ago
    I had no troubles rendering this on my phone while others are struggling with gaming PCs. Love the hyperbole in the comments sections sometimes.
    - bennyp101 5y ago
      To be fair, you get a different experience on mobile than desktop. Turning on responsive mode and I can scroll the site, with it off, I have no idea what it;s doing but it eventually scrolled to the bottom, although Im not sure what that white bar was trying to represent ... just kinda randomly moved
    - Lvl999Noob 5y ago
      It isn't hyperbole though. I have a gaming laptop here. Just opening the site in a new tab hanged my browser for nearly a minute.
    - ehnto 5y ago
      My comment was tongue in cheek, but the site did lock up my browser and ran at < 5 frames per second when it did load, I couldn't scroll to actually see the full site, so not exactly hyperbole.
    - garaetjjte 5y ago
      It literally hangs my browser for ~10 seconds when it opens.
MereInterest 5y ago
Not only that, but during some sections, the scroll indicator bounces around. I think they're trying to evoke the impression of a volume meter, and doing so incredibly poorly. They also broke keyboard navigation, so I can't even page-up/page-down past it.
lqet 5y ago
I cannot open the page, my browser (Chromium) just freezes.
StevePerkins 5y ago
I'm using Brave with the ad and tracking blockers turned up, and this page won't even load at all. Just a black screen.
- james-skemp 5y ago
  If you're on mobile, you may not have waited long enough. On Android Brave it took more than 5 but less than 10 seconds to load on my phone.
timvdalen 5y ago
My browser full on _freezed_ for a couple of seconds while loading this page. And indeed, I have to scroll multiple times to make anything happen on the page.
- vultour 5y ago
  Same, I thought it got stuck on a blank blue page so tried to close it and realised my browser is frozen.
- tjpnz 5y ago
  It brought my S20+ to it's knees which came as a big surprise.
marcodiego 5y ago
I'm very curious to see what this is about, but it doesn't works with my browser.
- lopis 5y ago
  It easily took 10 seconds to fully load and render on my desktop. I imagine it takes quite a bit more if you're on mobile.
philliphaydon 5y ago
Wait, there's a scroll wheel, i thought it was a looping video...
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bitsoda 5y ago
Yeah it's pretty dark. The scrolling appears to be time-based. After you spend x milliseconds on a section, it'll let you move onto the next with any scroll event.
iypx 5y ago
What? I had no idea you could scroll.. I can only see the background+heading+paragraph.. nothing happens when I scroll.. Guess Firefox ESR is too outdated for the "new winamp". Can't wait for the new "app" requiring a few gigs of ram and the latest OS...

crooked-v 5y ago

I closed the page after about ten seconds for exactly that reason.

riedel 5y ago

Not only you and not only this issue: On my Fennec browser on Android it was also impossible to scroll because rendering seemed really slow. So I think they overdid that revamping a bit.

bmlzootown 5y ago
The site brought my S10+ to a screeching halt. I had to force-kill Harmonic, the HN client I use on my phone, just to get out of it. Site preloading via an in-app webview is nice until you happen upon a site like this.

BadOakOx 5y ago

I tried to open it on mobile and it was unbearably laggy.

thrdbndndn 5y ago

It literally freezes my browser when opening it.

icelancer 5y ago
Same. I thought Chrome crashed, but it stalled for just 5 seconds.

superasn 5y ago

Yeah one of the bad landing pages. 1) Explains nothing: "something big is happening." 2) Hides the scrollbar 3) Spikes the CPU usage I closed the tab after this but I'm sure there is more :/

gorbachev 5y ago
The "new" owner of winamp has been saying they're about to unleash something awesome ever since about 2014 or so.

feketegy 5y ago

It's a bad landing page, imho.

0x00000000 5y ago

I only clicked because I was hoping the page would be a cool relic from the 90s but instead I was visually assaulted by four full screen autoplay videos and a cookie pop up obstructing 75% of the laggy page. Would not visit again.

nonameking2026 5y ago
For you my friend. https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.winamp.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.winamp.com/
- squarefoot 5y ago
  A breath of fresh air. When will they learn...
tuoret 5y ago
Ironically it's the kind of terrible modern UX design that would make me want to use classic Winamp in the first place (if foobar2000 wasn't a thing).
- 1_player 5y ago
  Whoever is Winamp today, what they want to revive is not their old cool audio player, but just ride on the name and sell some modern piece of crap that has nothing to do with classic Winamp.
  - SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
    I imagine that in the age of streaming music it would be a hard sell to produce a new offline music player.
    - smolder 5y ago
      Yeah, and we don't really need one, either. Winamp5 and VLC and others all still work fine for those of us who keep offline collections.

sprkwd 5y ago

Why do web pages have to be so… exciting?

ehnto 5y ago
A bit of a cross between exceptionalism and the ever increasing feature scope of browsers. We're delivering fully fledged 3D video games and video streaming apps via the web, pretty much anything is possible, and marketing/design/product development teams can see that and want to leverage it. I much prefer simple text/css websites, but here we are in 2021, where the web browser is the most ubiquitous software delivery platform on the planet.

ruuda 5y ago

Works fine with js disabled

zephyr9 5y ago

I see a large box that simply has two buttons: "Accept" and "Decline". What am I accepting or declining? Does it even matter at this point?

sva_ 5y ago
A kind of Kafkaesque webdesign

trog 5y ago

Website is unusable on my Pixel 3 so I have no idea how they've butchered Winamp, which is probably something I should be thankful for

chaosharmonic 5y ago
The website also has no screenshots and is advertising a private beta, so we have no idea how they've butchered Winamp either.

awill88 5y ago

Have you ever visited an Apple product page?

zekica 5y ago
At least Apple's product pages use normal scroll functionality. This one is completely broken.

jonnycomputer 5y ago

No, it is not just you. If this is a harbinger of what this new winamp will look like, ugh.

azeirah 5y ago
Doubt it to be honest, if they're rebuilding Winamp from scratch then maybe. Otherwise, I'd expect it to be built on top of the existing Winamp source code which is all C++ and not extremely over designed CSS and Javascript
- Liquid_Fire 5y ago
  The webpage gives me exactly zero expectation that this will be in any way based on the original Winamp. Furthermore, the original Winamp was Windows-only. For anything like this to be successful today it needs to be a webapp and/or a mobile app, which more than likely means starting from scratch.
  - azeirah 5y ago
    Good points about needing to launch on multiple platforms, that might indeed mean it'll be rewritten. We'll see
Minor49er 5y ago
Bloated, yet overly simplistic? Maybe this is really just the relaunch of the Zune player

kburman 5y ago

Everything wrong with the current web has been put into a single page. It should be used as benchmark on how bad you can design.

aasasd 5y ago
Perhaps you haven't seen https://userinyerface.com https://userinyerface.com

ehnto 5y ago

I would love to join the discussion but it would seem this website exceeds the performance capabilities of my 4k capable gaming rig.

millzlane 5y ago
I'm on a 1080 rig. It was bad, it was't that bad. But I also pause animations too.
- nindalf 5y ago
  I had no troubles rendering this on my phone while others are struggling with gaming PCs. Love the hyperbole in the comments sections sometimes.
  - bennyp101 5y ago
    To be fair, you get a different experience on mobile than desktop. Turning on responsive mode and I can scroll the site, with it off, I have no idea what it;s doing but it eventually scrolled to the bottom, although Im not sure what that white bar was trying to represent ... just kinda randomly moved
  - Lvl999Noob 5y ago
    It isn't hyperbole though. I have a gaming laptop here. Just opening the site in a new tab hanged my browser for nearly a minute.
  - ehnto 5y ago
    My comment was tongue in cheek, but the site did lock up my browser and ran at < 5 frames per second when it did load, I couldn't scroll to actually see the full site, so not exactly hyperbole.
  - garaetjjte 5y ago
    It literally hangs my browser for ~10 seconds when it opens.

MereInterest 5y ago

Not only that, but during some sections, the scroll indicator bounces around. I think they're trying to evoke the impression of a volume meter, and doing so incredibly poorly. They also broke keyboard navigation, so I can't even page-up/page-down past it.

lqet 5y ago

I cannot open the page, my browser (Chromium) just freezes.

StevePerkins 5y ago

I'm using Brave with the ad and tracking blockers turned up, and this page won't even load at all. Just a black screen.

james-skemp 5y ago
If you're on mobile, you may not have waited long enough. On Android Brave it took more than 5 but less than 10 seconds to load on my phone.

timvdalen 5y ago

My browser full on _freezed_ for a couple of seconds while loading this page. And indeed, I have to scroll multiple times to make anything happen on the page.

vultour 5y ago
Same, I thought it got stuck on a blank blue page so tried to close it and realised my browser is frozen.
tjpnz 5y ago
It brought my S20+ to it's knees which came as a big surprise.

marcodiego 5y ago

I'm very curious to see what this is about, but it doesn't works with my browser.

lopis 5y ago
It easily took 10 seconds to fully load and render on my desktop. I imagine it takes quite a bit more if you're on mobile.

philliphaydon 5y ago

Wait, there's a scroll wheel, i thought it was a looping video...

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bitsoda 5y ago

Yeah it's pretty dark. The scrolling appears to be time-based. After you spend x milliseconds on a section, it'll let you move onto the next with any scroll event.

iypx 5y ago

What? I had no idea you could scroll.. I can only see the background+heading+paragraph.. nothing happens when I scroll.. Guess Firefox ESR is too outdated for the "new winamp". Can't wait for the new "app" requiring a few gigs of ram and the latest OS...