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On a side note, Forbes website has terrible UX. First I'm presented with page-takeover ad. Then page is full of flash based ads. Page loading was terribly slow.
by dm8 14y ago
On a side note, Forbes website has terrible UX. First I'm presented with page-takeover ad. Then page is full of flash based ads. Page loading was terribly slow. Looking at web inspector, it made ~ 266 requests for ~ 187 KB of data. And it took 14 seconds to load it (even though I'm on fast corporate n/w). On top of that, I can't find single comment on the article. Then I see "Expand comments" in small font. In confusion, I click the link and then I saw the comment by Jim. What is tech team doing at Forbes? Imagine if I'm accessing it on mobile device.
- onedev 14y agoYeah it's pretty bad. I don't know if they realize that or not.
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- mst 14y agoWhenever I'm faced with something like this, I remind myself of the essential question to ask when deciding how to prioritise work on a content site: How will this affect advertising revenue? Having a design HN hates may correlate with losing significant numbers of users and therefore revenue over time ... but then again it may not, and there's always the opportunity cost quesstion when deciding how to calibrate "significant numbers".