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It's odd because I was immediately thrown off when I hit the back button and there was a lag going back. Even on dial-up, going back was an instant operation b
by eterm 4y ago
It's odd because I was immediately thrown off when I hit the back button and there was a lag going back.
Even on dial-up, going back was an instant operation because it just loaded the cache. Even when it did reload, it would immediate blank or react in some way.
It didn't have a weird lag to it like this site does, which immediately reveals the true foundations as a more modern SPA where hitting the back button must be firing off an ajax call which is then waited on.
- partly_cloudy 4y agoyeah looks like the lag got a little bad the past couple hours because i wasn't ready for the traffic. i'm going to looking into upgrading the hardware tonight. i was not ready for this HN post doing as well as it did.
- Klonoar 4y agoI'm discussing UI/UX, not the stack. The back button is... something else here.
- 100721 4y agoI think the back button fits perfectly into the UI/UX. It is, quite literally, part of the UI. We don't have much control over the UI portion, but it is firmly in the realm of UX.
- Klonoar 4y agoUX, maybe. UI? No, not even remotely in the conversation. The commenter is complaining that the back button took too long and the creator responded to indicate it's a load issue. At no point is that in the realm of design, which is what my comment was about.
- tobr 4y agoPerformance is part of design in software, much like how button feel is part of industrial design, or fabric qualities are part of fashion design. But I also see what you mean, you were talking about visual design.
- Klonoar 4y agoThank you for somehow being the only person in this complaint thread to grasp that, lol
- clord 4y agoLoading and performance behind loading states are UI concerns, especially on a big distributed system like the modern web. Perhaps you allow native browser elements to provide that UI, perhaps customize it somehow, but a UI designer must consider how the page fills as data arrives. Do you do the ‘spinner hell’ thing? Keep it blank? FOUC? Show cache and update? These are primary UI concerns.
- eterm 4y agoThat load even affects the back button is very much part of the User Experience (UX) and immediately broke the illusion of being back in 1998.
- catach 4y agoIsn't responsiveness on input definitely a UX concern, and doubly so when it changes the feel of a common operation in a specific context?
- bboygravity 4y agoI would say responsiveness is the number 1 most important UI property. At least for me. The modern web designers and app builders clearly don't agree with me with their heavy websites that make the browser eat a gig or so of RAM and all have unnecesarily slow UI's.
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