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I'd go a step beyond the frontpage: every time I reach Pinterest for some reason (usually due to a picture that I found on an image search), I'm hit by a very a

I'd go a step beyond the frontpage: every time I reach Pinterest for some reason (usually due to a picture that I found on an image search), I'm hit by a very annoying "log in to see more" banner (usually before I reach the picture I was looking for). If Pinterest is a magazine, that banner is the guy taking it from my hands and scolding me "this is not a library!" I now actively avoid Pinterest links.

zamalek 12y ago
Yep. The article is the first time I've ever learned what Pinterest actually is. I'm not going to commit to an account before I know what something is - signup walls prevent me from educating myself.
- wink 12y ago
  I don't think the Facebook landing page is better, but more people kind of know what it's about.
  - zamalek 12y ago
    ... or got in before they put up the signup wall.
siegecraft 12y ago
I have the same experience. Pinterest is the ultimate "internet" company, using free labor to curate other people's content so they can sell ads to their users. Which is not to say that the platform they provide, and the communities created on it, don't have value. It's just not enough to convince me to use it.
DanBC 12y ago
I love Pinterest. That banner is user hostile and makes me not love Pinterest. The experience on mobile is worse. There's bizarre behaviour where an appstore link can seize focus. You're in Chrome, browsing the WWW, and suddenly Chrome minimises and the app store opens. Pinterest does this and it is horrible behaviour. If you install the Pinterest app you get asked if you want to open the page in the app instead of your browser. I would use Pinterest everyday if it wasn't for that.
mark_integerdsv 12y ago
If you do that on mobile you can view the image through a portal about 20% of your screen size - the rest is crowded in with some sort of chrome. So it's like he grabs the mag from you, scolds you and then leaves the page you wanted to see open behind the counter where you can stand and squint at it for a bit if you like.
chestnut-tree 12y ago
"I'm hit by a very annoying "log in to see more" banner" This is a fairly recent change to the site and I agree it's obstructive and intensely irritating. Imagine if Flickr were to do something similar? Clearly Pinterest want to drive further registrations to their site, but this seems like such a rude and intrusive way of doing it. Pinterest is an excellent source of visual inspiration and research often overlooked by many designers and developers. There are lots of excellent boards that collect examples of website, app and tablet designs. There is also a huge variety of illustration and graphic design examples of every style and colour imaginable. However, the new restrictions they've placed on viewing content mean that I no longer recommend Pinterest links.

zamalek 12y ago

Yep. The article is the first time I've ever learned what Pinterest actually is. I'm not going to commit to an account before I know what something is - signup walls prevent me from educating myself.

wink 12y ago
I don't think the Facebook landing page is better, but more people kind of know what it's about.
- zamalek 12y ago
  ... or got in before they put up the signup wall.

siegecraft 12y ago

I have the same experience. Pinterest is the ultimate "internet" company, using free labor to curate other people's content so they can sell ads to their users. Which is not to say that the platform they provide, and the communities created on it, don't have value. It's just not enough to convince me to use it.

DanBC 12y ago

I love Pinterest. That banner is user hostile and makes me not love Pinterest. The experience on mobile is worse. There's bizarre behaviour where an appstore link can seize focus. You're in Chrome, browsing the WWW, and suddenly Chrome minimises and the app store opens. Pinterest does this and it is horrible behaviour. If you install the Pinterest app you get asked if you want to open the page in the app instead of your browser. I would use Pinterest everyday if it wasn't for that.

mark_integerdsv 12y ago

If you do that on mobile you can view the image through a portal about 20% of your screen size - the rest is crowded in with some sort of chrome. So it's like he grabs the mag from you, scolds you and then leaves the page you wanted to see open behind the counter where you can stand and squint at it for a bit if you like.

chestnut-tree 12y ago

"I'm hit by a very annoying "log in to see more" banner" This is a fairly recent change to the site and I agree it's obstructive and intensely irritating. Imagine if Flickr were to do something similar? Clearly Pinterest want to drive further registrations to their site, but this seems like such a rude and intrusive way of doing it. Pinterest is an excellent source of visual inspiration and research often overlooked by many designers and developers. There are lots of excellent boards that collect examples of website, app and tablet designs. There is also a huge variety of illustration and graphic design examples of every style and colour imaginable. However, the new restrictions they've placed on viewing content mean that I no longer recommend Pinterest links.