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i hate web articles that have each item of list on a different page

Yes this seems to be something picking up steam lately. It's infuriating. Some of them have a "View all on one page" button tucked into a corner. But that's rare.
 
I get irritated with online retail dividing items up into page after page after page.
Just add the "VIEW ALL" option, please.
I don't want to click thru 30 pages of table lamps.
 
Yep, as soon as I see they are doing this (without an option to see the whole article or whatever in full), I close the page and never go back to that site.

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
Yep, as soon as I see they are doing this (without an option to see the whole article or whatever in full), I close the page and never go back to that site.

KT
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This.
If the article is something I want to read, I google it and read it on another site.
 
As irritating as that is, I find what's more aggravating is the new trend to "one format fits all" pages where the pages are ultra-long and filled with giant photos, which probably work great for tablets and smartphones but I don't like them on a desktop/laptop. So much scrolling to get another handful of words.

Example: https://nest.com/thermostat/life-with-nest-thermostat/
 
I hate the article links with pics that are titled something like "what this guy did next will shock you". So annoying. And sometimes works.
 
sportage said:
I get irritated with online retail dividing items up into page after page after page.
Just add the "VIEW ALL" option, please.
I don't want to click thru 30 pages of table lamps.
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That's for page load times - not everyone is on [unmetered] broadband and as a retailer you don't want people closing your website because it's loading too slow. Many do give an option to view more or all.
 
brainhulk said:
That you have to click through. I know it's probably to increase view counts and ad space. But it needs to die

http://naturalon.com/10-of-the-most...m=referral&utm_campaign=pcgo&utm_content=ndtv
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i want to get to the part about the multiple clickthroughs to hate on it but i have to go through the following shit storm of floating elements before even being able to get to the images. THAT shit is aggravatingly getting more and more prolific.

sample from the site above:

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obviously it's for more money. sometimes you can use the print article link and the preview will show the entire thing on one page.

I'm ok with infinite scroll unless the page has a footer with links that I need to access. You basically can never get to the footer if it's a page with a ton of articles.
 
rh71 said:
That's for page load times - not everyone is on [unmetered] broadband and as a retailer you don't want people closing your website because it's loading too slow. Many do give an option to view more or all.
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Ya, because everyone is still on dial-up...
 
kranky said:
As irritating as that is, I find what's more aggravating is the new trend to "one format fits all" pages where the pages are ultra-long and filled with giant photos, which probably work great for tablets and smartphones but I don't like them on a desktop/laptop. So much scrolling to get another handful of words.

Example: https://nest.com/thermostat/life-with-nest-thermostat/
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Yeah. One of the news websites I went to everyday changed to a format for tablets/phones. Upon seeing that hideous crap I deleted them from my bookmarks and haven't gone back to the site.

Fern
 
HN said:
i want to get to the part about the multiple clickthroughs to hate on it but i have to go through the following shit storm of floating elements before even being able to get to the images. THAT shit is aggravatingly getting more and more prolific.

sample from the site above:

Hdp4MEX.jpg
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That is HORRIBLE. Those gray out things are the WORST. The people who code that stuff should be hanged by their testicles.

Those type of annoyingware pages tend to have like 50 different domains you need to allow in noscript just for the damn thing to load too, it's completely insane. There's absolutely no reason to code something so horribly.

Immediately close them.

Sucks trying to google anything these days though, more than half the sites you land on are sites that are coded like this. Way too much bull crap for nothing. But if you don't like it then you're considered old fashioned and resistant to change. Screw that. Sometimes the old way *IS* the better way.
 
kranky said:
As irritating as that is, I find what's more aggravating is the new trend to "one format fits all" pages where the pages are ultra-long and filled with giant photos, which probably work great for tablets and smartphones but I don't like them on a desktop/laptop. So much scrolling to get another handful of words.

Example: https://nest.com/thermostat/life-with-nest-thermostat/
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That's not a website, and the creator should be thrown in gitmo and waterboarded until he agrees to never make another one of those.... things.
 
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