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Les Orchard

This is the latest example, a page for the new Orox bike from Tern.

I like their cargo e-bikes. I'd like to flick through this page to get a sense for the new one. Instead I get this janky jerky twee slide show where I can't figure out how to stop on any particular bit of info without getting stuck halfway through a transition.

ternbicycles.com/en/bikes/471/

21 February at 17:10 | Open on hackers.town
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🐢 cowboy 🐢

@lmorchard oh no it's even worse on mobile

21 February at 17:13 | Open on tilde.zone
Les Orchard

Oh! And what's worse: Trying to scrub through this page by grabbing the scroll bar with my mouse, I also realized there's periodically a navigable carousel of stuff to stop and click through.

So, while they're doing all these fancy slide-wipes and stutter-stop animations in reaction to my scrolling - the actual info I want to see is hidden behind next / previous arrows I have to stop and click on. Crimony, this is awful

21 February at 17:14 | Open on hackers.town
mav :happy_blob:
Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸

@lmorchard I absolutely loathe that kind of UI too, but just as often if not more, the fault lays with the CEOs. They're so easily distracted by shiny garbage and all it takes for one competitor to do something flashy and tacky for all of them to follow suit and if you dare tell them that it's not a good idea, they'll shove you out the door before you can finish speaking.

21 February at 17:27 | Open on sfba.social
Les Orchard

@sysop408 It's annoying me because I'm like, I need a Reader Mode for this brochure - and then I'm like what am I doing with my life

21 February at 17:28 | Open on hackers.town
Sampath Pāṇini ®

@sysop408 @lmorchard
…cuz the execs don’t use the site. This what happens when design and product people get muted.

21 February at 17:29 | Open on mastodon.world
IvanTheBlue

@sysop408 @lmorchard
That's why I agree to do it then come back two days later with some techno-babble as to why we can't do it unless we completely rebuild the site or something

21 February at 19:49 | Open on hear-me.social
Jernej Simončič �

@lmorchard I tried Reader Mode in Vivaldi, and the site somehow manages to break that (using the scroll wheel rubberbands to the top of the page, though dragging the scrollbar does work).

21 February at 17:30 | Open on infosec.exchange
Nicole Parsons

@lmorchard

I've resorted to selecting all the text & copy/paste it into a text-only notes application, just so I can read the article without the sensory equivalent of strobe lights flashing on and off.

Shutting off javascript in the browser sometimes helps too.

21 February at 19:14 | Open on mstdn.social
evenreven

@lmorchard They're not just obnoxious, but it's so rare they even work. I have a recent mid-level Android phone, and on Vivaldi/Chromium this janks along so badly I needed some time to notice that scrolling did anything at all. If I, as a developer, showed this to my boss and said it was ready to launch, I would probably get fired, deservedly.

21 February at 17:18 | Open on ruby.social
enantiomer
Tim Lavoie

@lmorchard That is obnoxious. Pretty sweet bike though!

21 February at 18:47 | Open on cosocial.ca
Totally with Ю :questified:
Robotistry

@lmorchard I especially loathe the way my one single action "scroll" turns into "flip to next image down" and then into "flip sideways" and then "jump to image" and then "make something move in the opposite direction from the direction I'm scrolling" and then "zoom out".

It's like someone said "Here's a box of effects. You have to use all of them at least once. Make it easy for me to grade."

21 February at 20:31 | Open on sciencemastodon.com
Eric Vitiello
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