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I didn’t know what Posthog was before this event but the website is so unusable on Safari on MacOS or iOS for me i’m surprised I stuck through to discover the p

by hhh 11mo ago

I didn’t know what Posthog was before this event but the website is so unusable on Safari on MacOS or iOS for me i’m surprised I stuck through to discover the product.

flunhat 11mo ago
Curious, I pressed "X" on the blog post. It went away, leaving me with the fake desktop view at "posthog.com". Ok, fine. How do I get back? I pressed the back button on my browser. The URL updated to be the blog post's URL. A good start. But the UI did not change, leaving me at the desktop view. Many moments like these if you use Posthog
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zahlman 11mo ago
Without JavaScript, all I get is a background image and a top "navigation bar" where the only thing that's actually operable at all is a signup link. Which then goes to a completely blank page. I still don't know what Posthog is, but I'm now committed to never using it if I can at all help it.
- mbreese 11mo ago
  We are taking about a company’s JavaScript libraries (the npm attack). Knowing that, I’m pretty sure that people who browse without JavaScript enabled aren’t their target market. I’m apparently also not in their market so, the best I ca say from the website is (hand wavy) “website analytics”.
khannn 11mo ago
The site caused my browser to freeze and it reminded me of the 56k modem days.
amitav1 11mo ago
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- loeg 11mo ago
  In this case, I think GP is suggesting this rises above the level of a tangential annoyance.
  - MonkeyClub 11mo ago
    Also HN doesn't need 11 month old volunteer mods.
    - ksenzee 11mo ago
      a) ok whippersnapper, b) new community members have the most energy. I’m not actually sure there’s much need for volunteer mods on HN tbh, but the best volunteers are often the newest folks around.
      - MonkeyClub 11mo ago
        Well wagging the same finger twice in the same comment section on the same point is overenergetic in my book. At least the second time it should have become obvious that the comments were voicing a common response of visitors to the site, so were constructive rather than nitpicking.
  - metabagel 11mo ago
    It’s tangential, because it’s not about the information posted.
meowface 11mo ago
Interesting, I remember people here praising their website redesign a while ago.

by hhh 11mo ago

I didn’t know what Posthog was before this event but the website is so unusable on Safari on MacOS or iOS for me i’m surprised I stuck through to discover the product.

flunhat 11mo ago

Curious, I pressed "X" on the blog post. It went away, leaving me with the fake desktop view at "posthog.com". Ok, fine. How do I get back? I pressed the back button on my browser. The URL updated to be the blog post's URL. A good start. But the UI did not change, leaving me at the desktop view. Many moments like these if you use Posthog

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zahlman 11mo ago

Without JavaScript, all I get is a background image and a top "navigation bar" where the only thing that's actually operable at all is a signup link. Which then goes to a completely blank page. I still don't know what Posthog is, but I'm now committed to never using it if I can at all help it.

mbreese 11mo ago
We are taking about a company’s JavaScript libraries (the npm attack). Knowing that, I’m pretty sure that people who browse without JavaScript enabled aren’t their target market. I’m apparently also not in their market so, the best I ca say from the website is (hand wavy) “website analytics”.

khannn 11mo ago

The site caused my browser to freeze and it reminded me of the 56k modem days.

amitav1 11mo ago

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

loeg 11mo ago
In this case, I think GP is suggesting this rises above the level of a tangential annoyance.
- MonkeyClub 11mo ago
  Also HN doesn't need 11 month old volunteer mods.
  - ksenzee 11mo ago
    a) ok whippersnapper, b) new community members have the most energy. I’m not actually sure there’s much need for volunteer mods on HN tbh, but the best volunteers are often the newest folks around.
    - MonkeyClub 11mo ago
      Well wagging the same finger twice in the same comment section on the same point is overenergetic in my book. At least the second time it should have become obvious that the comments were voicing a common response of visitors to the site, so were constructive rather than nitpicking.
- metabagel 11mo ago
  It’s tangential, because it’s not about the information posted.

meowface 11mo ago

Interesting, I remember people here praising their website redesign a while ago.