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Improvements like that at Nytimes.com have had me happily paying for my daily news for the first time. The user experience is just orders of magnitude better t
by saturdaysaint 12y ago
Improvements like that at Nytimes.com have had me happily paying for my daily news for the first time. The user experience is just orders of magnitude better than anything I've found that's available for free. Almost reminds me of when Google maps came out and completely changed expectations for a map site. The iOS app also impressed me: it's great at caching stories, so even in crappy network areas it feels like a "broadband" newsreading experience (kind of amazing how long it took for a news app to accomplish this).
- Curmudgel 12y agoI find the user experience on the new site to be much worse than the new site. When I'm reading an article I really don't care about navigating to the rest of the site. I have a small widescreen laptop, which means that the fixed headers at the top give me less room to read the article. I don't need gobs of white space to read the news article in print, so why is white space so important on the web that navigation has to be hidden in one of those awful hamburger buttons? The text is harder to read because it has lower contrast. The new comment system is totally unusable. I don't really appreciate large, useless images interrupting the flow of the article. And I don't need Javascript to read a newspaper article (the site loads like a pig with Javascript) because I'm going to be navigating to a different page when I read another article. It's faster to just open the home page and open each article in a new tab (with JS disabled).