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.
You 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.
In 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.
Have 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.
That'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.
Like 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.
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.