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Holy crap, the overdone continuous scrolling and animation makes that page almost useless. Scroll a little bit, and suddenly I'm jumped to a different part of
by chops 14y ago
Holy crap, the overdone continuous scrolling and animation makes that page almost useless. Scroll a little bit, and suddenly I'm jumped to a different part of the page. Don't scroll too far up, or it loads the previous article right in place, and doesn't keep you where you were. Then the top-bar seems to come down at random.
What a frustrating example of overdoing an attempt at a "rich experience" thus hindering the user experience of trying to just read the goddamned article. I'll take the bullshit multipage approach that clickmongers use over this goofy and unintuitive interface.
- philwelch 14y agoYou know, one of the eternal downsides of a discussion site filled with web developers is that whenever you post a link, instead of discussing the actual content, the top-rated comment is far too often an angry criticism of the website design itself, followed by tangent about Javascript or something.
- lostlogin 14y agoAnd this is why I keep coming back! The off-topic stuff is great.
- smutticus 14y agoI consider this an eternal upside.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoIn this case, the website design is so horrible as to render a discussion about the topic impossible, since the design has made it impossible to read the damn thing.
- Justen 14y agoThat seems a tad melodramatic..
- mnicole 14y agoHave you been to the site? It's not at all navigable on desktops. When you can't even read the content without being shoved into another section of the site entirely, it's kind of a big deal.
- philwelch 14y agoI managed to read it on a desktop just fine.
- angryasian 14y agohardly, it could be because I block all their trackers on the site, but I just see a spinning circle.
- paul9290 14y agoUh yeah i'm not on a tablet or phone; horrible experience!
- rurounijones 14y agoTry running it whoutt JS enabled. Nothing says quality like three levels of nested scrollbars.
- zalew 14y agoqz.com should have a warning sign "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!". it's worse than blogspot.
- thedrbrian 14y agoLike a load of "mobile optimised" websites it only gives the smart phone user 5 or so words per line of text. Amazing when you consider my first Internet capable only had a monitor with a mere 60 thousand extra pixels compared to my phone.
- FaddiCat 14y agoI've been to this website a few times and I've never gotten past the loading throbber.
- rplnt 14y agoI don't remember 99% of sites I visit from HN but I somehow remembered this one and I've only seen it once. Maybe that's what they are aiming for.
- rhizome 14y agowasn't there some other HN article that was posted from this site? there were plenty of complaints then, too. ugh, there's a bunch. all clickbaity headlines: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=qz.com http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=qz.com
- Osiris 14y agoThat's the first thing I noticed. Somehow I accidentally scrolled up three articles or so and I couldn't find my way back to this article. I had to back out to HN and click the link again and then I was super careful not to scroll too fast lest I end up on some other page. Horrible user experience.
- janerik 14y agoA lot better to read via Instapaper: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F44671%2Fhbo-comedy-silicon-valley-is-a-lot-better-than-bravo-reality-show-silicon-valley%2F http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F44671...