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What the hell. I start scrolling with my mouse wheel, but nothing moves. I'm thinking my mouse must be broken, until 30 seconds later, I notice the "cover image

What the hell. I start scrolling with my mouse wheel, but nothing moves. I'm thinking my mouse must be broken, until 30 seconds later, I notice the "cover image" fade in and out. I swear, crappy flash intros are alive and well. They just don't use flash anymore.

bausson 12y ago
Using page-down instead of scrolling help. Still horriblue UX/design, though.
borplk 12y ago
At least they all had a "skip intro" that would get rid of it all
smanuel 12y ago
Everyone seems to be trying to reinvent the scrolling these days. Meanwhile the craigslist's designers and UX engineers (if there are any) are having hell of a fun.
- idone6 12y ago
  what craiglist has to do anything with this ?
weavie 12y ago
It is articles like this where Instapaper text comes in very handy. Clear out all the flash, and just show the content.
joezydeco 12y ago
This was completely unreadble on iOS6. It's amusing to think that some believe Apple is deliberately crippling browsers on older devices. It's sites like Wired that are doing the work for them.
ghshephard 12y ago
I couldn't read it on my MacBook Air 2013 + Chrome. Decided to just come here and read the comments instead.
waylandsmithers 12y ago
I think they might have been attempting to simulate a magazine-like experience, where the pictures that required more scrolling than normal were supposed to be like turning the page to a full page image. I feel like I've seen this attempted before but with flashing down arrows to tell you that you need to keep scrolling. Based on the reactions here, I don't think it was successful, but I do appreciate efforts to enhance the reading experience.
- DanBC 12y ago
  > but I do appreciate efforts to enhance the reading experience. I don't. I just want the words. Ideally I want the words to be in a nice font and nice contrast and well laid out. In a perfect world there would be some diagrams and illustrations to support the text.
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    > I don't. I just want the words. Me too. But I don't know what else to do other than reading longer articles through Pocket/Instapaper and sending everyone I know [0] as a reminder every once in a while. [0] - http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
- normloman 12y ago
  Magazine experience sounds right. You know, the flat design people who railed against skeuomorphism missed the point. Sure, faux-wood textures on your website are a waste of time. But forcing a digital medium to behave like a piece of paper is as skeuomorphic as you can get.

bausson 12y ago

Using page-down instead of scrolling help. Still horriblue UX/design, though.

borplk 12y ago

At least they all had a "skip intro" that would get rid of it all

smanuel 12y ago

Everyone seems to be trying to reinvent the scrolling these days. Meanwhile the craigslist's designers and UX engineers (if there are any) are having hell of a fun.

idone6 12y ago
what craiglist has to do anything with this ?

weavie 12y ago

It is articles like this where Instapaper text comes in very handy. Clear out all the flash, and just show the content.

joezydeco 12y ago

This was completely unreadble on iOS6. It's amusing to think that some believe Apple is deliberately crippling browsers on older devices. It's sites like Wired that are doing the work for them.

ghshephard 12y ago

I couldn't read it on my MacBook Air 2013 + Chrome. Decided to just come here and read the comments instead.

waylandsmithers 12y ago

I think they might have been attempting to simulate a magazine-like experience, where the pictures that required more scrolling than normal were supposed to be like turning the page to a full page image. I feel like I've seen this attempted before but with flashing down arrows to tell you that you need to keep scrolling. Based on the reactions here, I don't think it was successful, but I do appreciate efforts to enhance the reading experience.

DanBC 12y ago
> but I do appreciate efforts to enhance the reading experience. I don't. I just want the words. Ideally I want the words to be in a nice font and nice contrast and well laid out. In a perfect world there would be some diagrams and illustrations to support the text.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  > I don't. I just want the words. Me too. But I don't know what else to do other than reading longer articles through Pocket/Instapaper and sending everyone I know [0] as a reminder every once in a while. [0] - http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
normloman 12y ago
Magazine experience sounds right. You know, the flat design people who railed against skeuomorphism missed the point. Sure, faux-wood textures on your website are a waste of time. But forcing a digital medium to behave like a piece of paper is as skeuomorphic as you can get.