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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

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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.

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

Sampath Pāṇini ®

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

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

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).

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.

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