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I'd love to read this article but man this site is painful on mobile. Multiple popups from the top, header that overlays the text, the chat bubble at the bottom

by dagmx 5y ago

I'd love to read this article but man this site is painful on mobile. Multiple popups from the top, header that overlays the text, the chat bubble at the bottom. It really reduces the amount of space for the actual content When comparing to Reader View in Safari, the native site has at least 40% less viewing area

PeterCorless 5y ago
Hi Dagmx! Peter Corless here from ScyllaDB. Sorry to hear about your mobile experience. I've notified our web team. If you want to screenshot your mobile view to share with me, please email me at peter @ scylladb [dot] com. You have my commitment we'll be working on improving the page. Aside from that though, hope you were able to glean something valuable from the article. Would love to hear your opinions.
- DenseComet 5y ago
  I've been using Scylla for a project and have ended up reading quite a few of those blog posts. They are generally very well written and useful, but I've noticed the same sort of issues. There's the chat popup at the bottom, a banner for Scylla Summit, a cookie banner that doesn't seem to remember what I clicked, and a header with broken transparency. For me, Cloudflare is the benchmark. Cloudflare.com is very clearly a marketing site, likely run by their marketing team, but their technical content such as their blog and docs are on completely different subdomains with a clean design with no popups or banners. I think this is the best way to run tech focused blog, making both developers and marketing happy.
- dmitriid 5y ago
  > If you want to screenshot your mobile view to share with me Just, you know, visit your own site on mobile. Or open Chrome dev tools and switch to mobile view. > You have my commitment we'll be working on improving the page. As with all in-your-face marketing shenanigans, I doubt you'll change anything in the long run.
  - PeterCorless 5y ago
    I did this, in fact. I also had other colleagues. A lot of UI/UX depends on the browser (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Opera) and the OS. So I wanted to confirm precisely what he was seeing. And we're already working on fixes.
- dmitriid 5y ago
  Three screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/XUpP9ha https://imgur.com/a/XUpP9ha Including the cookie banner that's illegal under GDPR (and is likely illegal under CCPA)
  - throwaway81523 5y ago
    Xkcd 624?
- dagmx 5y ago
  Thanks for looking into it. I see others (dmitriid) have uploaded screenshots already, so I won't duplicate. But yes, otherwise the article itself was insightful and thank you for sharing your findings.
dijit 5y ago
Seems alright on my iPad. https://imgur.com/a/SJwg1E2 https://imgur.com/a/SJwg1E2
- dagmx 5y ago
  That's a much larger screen than the largest iPhone. Hence why I specified mobile.
r00fus 5y ago
TBH, I've moved to setting Reader View as default for all Safari visits in iOS. You can whitelist sites or just undo reader view for that session if needed. Zero ads, and mostly I'm there for the text anyway.
bschwindHN 5y ago
On an iPhone SE 1, you literally get 5 lines of readable text, and 3 if the Safari navigation UI is showing. I also can't close the chat bubble because the X is off the screen to the right, and the scroll position jumps around near the top of the page as you scroll because some calculation or CSS is wrong.

by dagmx 5y ago

PeterCorless 5y ago

Hi Dagmx! Peter Corless here from ScyllaDB. Sorry to hear about your mobile experience. I've notified our web team. If you want to screenshot your mobile view to share with me, please email me at peter @ scylladb [dot] com. You have my commitment we'll be working on improving the page. Aside from that though, hope you were able to glean something valuable from the article. Would love to hear your opinions.

DenseComet 5y ago
I've been using Scylla for a project and have ended up reading quite a few of those blog posts. They are generally very well written and useful, but I've noticed the same sort of issues. There's the chat popup at the bottom, a banner for Scylla Summit, a cookie banner that doesn't seem to remember what I clicked, and a header with broken transparency. For me, Cloudflare is the benchmark. Cloudflare.com is very clearly a marketing site, likely run by their marketing team, but their technical content such as their blog and docs are on completely different subdomains with a clean design with no popups or banners. I think this is the best way to run tech focused blog, making both developers and marketing happy.
dmitriid 5y ago
> If you want to screenshot your mobile view to share with me Just, you know, visit your own site on mobile. Or open Chrome dev tools and switch to mobile view. > You have my commitment we'll be working on improving the page. As with all in-your-face marketing shenanigans, I doubt you'll change anything in the long run.
- PeterCorless 5y ago
  I did this, in fact. I also had other colleagues. A lot of UI/UX depends on the browser (Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Opera) and the OS. So I wanted to confirm precisely what he was seeing. And we're already working on fixes.
dmitriid 5y ago
Three screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/XUpP9ha https://imgur.com/a/XUpP9ha Including the cookie banner that's illegal under GDPR (and is likely illegal under CCPA)
- throwaway81523 5y ago
  Xkcd 624?
dagmx 5y ago
Thanks for looking into it. I see others (dmitriid) have uploaded screenshots already, so I won't duplicate. But yes, otherwise the article itself was insightful and thank you for sharing your findings.

dijit 5y ago

Seems alright on my iPad. https://imgur.com/a/SJwg1E2 https://imgur.com/a/SJwg1E2

dagmx 5y ago
That's a much larger screen than the largest iPhone. Hence why I specified mobile.

r00fus 5y ago

TBH, I've moved to setting Reader View as default for all Safari visits in iOS. You can whitelist sites or just undo reader view for that session if needed. Zero ads, and mostly I'm there for the text anyway.

bschwindHN 5y ago

On an iPhone SE 1, you literally get 5 lines of readable text, and 3 if the Safari navigation UI is showing. I also can't close the chat bubble because the X is off the screen to the right, and the scroll position jumps around near the top of the page as you scroll because some calculation or CSS is wrong.