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0 pointsthrowaway_pdp095y ago0 comments

> and will push each to the extreme to create better experiences for our users and reimagine what the web can become.

OMG. For this 'better experience' and 'reimagining what the web can become' did you bother to ask the users you pretend to cater for? No?

Listen carefully: the only experience I want from any website is to get to it, get the info I want, then I fuck off sharpish. I do not want 'experience' or any bloody 'reimagining' thank you. I have work to do.

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eeZah7Ux5y ago

Seconded. 99% of the crap on websites is not the information I need and it's wasting my limited resources:

- battery - monthly bandwidth cap - RAM - attention (pop ups, things that blink, things that scroll) - patience for privacy breaches

Pure text is the "better experience" most people want.

notJim5y ago

The obnoxious thing about this comment is that we often do ask users. Every company I've worked at does user testing and surveys, etc, and no one has ever complained about this stuff. Users do get excited for more interactivity and intuitive functionality, which is easiest to build in Javascript. You're assuming we haven't asked, when actually we have, and everyone else disagrees with you.

dsparkman5y ago

Thank You! I could not have said that better myself.

duxup5y ago

It's also their site... to make how they want.

ativzzz5y ago

The people who share your sentiment are a tiny minority, like IE users.

ithrow5y ago

The web is more than static websites.

throwaway_pdp09OP5y ago

Sure - see my comment elsewhere where I acknowledge that. But all I'm asking for is static sites where static sites are appropriate.

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