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Eternal forced scrolling "powerpoint" HTML slide-show? No, thank you. I have stopped after 3 pages. What is the point of doing this? Designers, who think that

by janoc 5y ago

Eternal forced scrolling "powerpoint" HTML slide-show? No, thank you. I have stopped after 3 pages. What is the point of doing this? Designers, who think that this is a good idea to waste people's time like this, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near computers.

lecarore 5y ago
I keep thinking something must be "wrong" with my scrollwheel, as all those experiences are super annoying but keep getting published by some people. I think it's not as bad if you're on a Mac or something. Anyway, I agree, it's just bad ux
- kzrdude 5y ago
  Worked great on Linux/Firefox/Intel graphics with a trackpad for scrolling.
smusamashah 5y ago
I think it was good in this case. They wanted to present a guided tour. May be they could have added buttons but this journey was nice overall.
- janoc 5y ago
  Then just record a video. Presenting an interactive experience and then taking away all control from the user and replacing it with an extremely frustrating navigation mode (hint, not everyone is using a phone/tablet or laptop touchpad - try to scroll that much with a mouse!) is just stupid and completely wasting the potential of the medium.
  - playpause 5y ago
    Good lord. Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this? What makes you feel equipped to call its creators "stupid"?
    - CamperBob2 5y ago
      Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this? Yes. Does that matter? This particular work has terrible, user-hostile navigation controls, and needs to support free movement. We could play Quake 2 in the browser several years ago, so it's not an unreasonable thing to ask for.
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playpause 5y ago
The UI could have been better, but it worked and it was something I’d never seen before and it made my day. Rich web experiences like this are difficult to pull off at all. I’m glad they made it. People who write empty, sneering comments about other people’s hard work shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near computers.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Not for people on mobile phones, none of my Android devices go past the first screen, paging doesn't work at all.
  - mazswojejzony 5y ago
    Works super smoothly on my Pixel 5 4G. Excellent work in general!
  - quietbritishjim 5y ago
    My Android phone was fairly mid range when I bought it, and that was a few years ago (long enough that I don't remember now!) and it works fine for me. Edit: I should mention that I only tried Chrome Edit 2: Also tried Firefox on my Android device. It was noticeably slower but still worked.
  - ElephantsMyAnus 5y ago
    It needs very unreasonable amount of scrolling.

by janoc 5y ago

lecarore 5y ago

I keep thinking something must be "wrong" with my scrollwheel, as all those experiences are super annoying but keep getting published by some people. I think it's not as bad if you're on a Mac or something. Anyway, I agree, it's just bad ux

kzrdude 5y ago
Worked great on Linux/Firefox/Intel graphics with a trackpad for scrolling.

smusamashah 5y ago

I think it was good in this case. They wanted to present a guided tour. May be they could have added buttons but this journey was nice overall.

janoc 5y ago
Then just record a video. Presenting an interactive experience and then taking away all control from the user and replacing it with an extremely frustrating navigation mode (hint, not everyone is using a phone/tablet or laptop touchpad - try to scroll that much with a mouse!) is just stupid and completely wasting the potential of the medium.
- playpause 5y ago
  Good lord. Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this? What makes you feel equipped to call its creators "stupid"?
  - CamperBob2 5y ago
    Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this? Yes. Does that matter? This particular work has terrible, user-hostile navigation controls, and needs to support free movement. We could play Quake 2 in the browser several years ago, so it's not an unreasonable thing to ask for.

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playpause 5y ago

The UI could have been better, but it worked and it was something I’d never seen before and it made my day. Rich web experiences like this are difficult to pull off at all. I’m glad they made it. People who write empty, sneering comments about other people’s hard work shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near computers.

pjmlp 5y ago
Not for people on mobile phones, none of my Android devices go past the first screen, paging doesn't work at all.
- mazswojejzony 5y ago
  Works super smoothly on my Pixel 5 4G. Excellent work in general!
- quietbritishjim 5y ago
  My Android phone was fairly mid range when I bought it, and that was a few years ago (long enough that I don't remember now!) and it works fine for me. Edit: I should mention that I only tried Chrome Edit 2: Also tried Firefox on my Android device. It was noticeably slower but still worked.
- ElephantsMyAnus 5y ago
  It needs very unreasonable amount of scrolling.