Latest trend in website layout/reviews...

[edro]

More mobile/tablet users, so that's where things are going.
web 8.0

 

[deadlyapp]

That verge website must not be rendering for me, it's just a white screen with black text lol

Example 1:
http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review

Example 2:
http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us?ocid=CRM_Welcome-DYK#1 Microsoft Health

Example 3:
https://www.fitbit.com/surge


Uhg. I just want to read about something. I don't need a full screen animated background, pages scrolling in and out, laggy response, and an unnecessary need to scroll for the sake of scrolling. It's taking away from the content of the article and shifting my focus to the article itself.

***shakes cane!***/weak rant/getoffmylawn/#oldpersonproblems

 

[brianmanahan]

I hate the new trend of using so much javascript that the site wont even load without having to enable like 30 sites through noscript. The sites you posted arn't actually too bad for that though, I've seen MUCH worse.

lol at anyone who still disables javascript

 

[vi edit]

parallax design. It's everywhere now

Ah, thanks for the name. I googled that and found the "best designed" parallax sites. No thank you.

I'm just old. I want information, not interaction on my web site.

 

[dougp]

Have you drafted with them recently? Completely worthless.

KT

Did they implement new changes with baseball this year?

 

[xeemzor]

Ah, thanks for the name. I googled that and found the "best designed" parallax sites. No thank you.

I'm just old. I want information, not interaction on my web site.

The internet as a whole has been pretty dumbed down over the past 5 years. It's getting harder and hard to find worthwhile sources of information.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Product reviews = new marketing gimmick



Sure, some of them are real. Problem is, its well known that companies are paying for reviews.

 

[zinfamous]

Example 1:
http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review

Example 2:
http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us?ocid=CRM_Welcome-DYK#1 Microsoft Health

Example 3:
https://www.fitbit.com/surge


Uhg. I just want to read about something. I don't need a full screen animated background, pages scrolling in and out, laggy response, and an unnecessary need to scroll for the sake of scrolling. It's taking away from the content of the article and shifting my focus to the article itself.

***shakes cane!***/weak rant/getoffmylawn/#oldpersonproblems

I can't stand them. The push is to make everything tablet friendly, and remove as much information as possible. Dumbing down everything, imo.

Amazon has been changing a lot in recent months. Half the time, my home page there is just a giant collection of photos, no real information about anything, I have no idea how this happened, but it pisses me off. Web designers are starting to assume that people are just stupid, I think, and only respond to simple pictures.

I mean...people are stupid, but it's never a good idea to assume that your audience is stupid. It makes them angry.

i hate all the bullshit ads, with "sensational" catch phrases like "you wouldnt believe what this 10 year old did...." especially on news websites. wtf?

It's because of this Marantz asshole:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist

These douchenozzles produce zero content but filter it out of all other content generators, tweak titles and verbiage to do nothing more than enhance "clickability," then blast it back out across their dozen or so stupid list-based websites.

Do yourself a favor and never click on a link to something with such a stupid title.

 

[KeithTalent]

Did they implement new changes with baseball this year?

Looked like it. Awful, even more than usual. D:

KT

 

[Newell Steamer]

I've seen this sytle mostly with restaurants.

I'm pretty indifferent. It is what it is. I'll survive.

 

[Ichinisan]

isn't a pic worth a thousand words?

In this case, no. The annoying thing is in the parallax scrolling layers. Some are going overboard, intentionally layering these panels in ways that are hard to wrap your brain around.

 

[clamum]

lol at anyone who still disables javascript

Some nerd-types might ("neeeeaahhhh I like to be as difficult as possible neeeeeahhhh linux") but I would venture a guess that most don't disable it since: 1.) So many sites require it, many for good reason; 2.) They wouldn't know how or even care.

 

[slayer202]

have you seen ESPNs new page?

its one of the worst things ive ever seen

they're old site was pretty shitty. this is one of the few redesigns I don't mind. not that I even go to the site very often

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol at anyone who still disables javascript

When doing a google search for anything there's no telling what kind of sites you can land on, and javascript is a great vehicle at getting infected. So is flash and java and all that other crap, but you normally need javascript to call up those things.

 

[ultimatebob]

Adblock, yo.

I'm really torn on what I hate more...needless click bate "lists" where you have to click through 50 slides with an add tossed in every third one. Or these "Journalized" sites that are trying to be overly trendy and make the review an "experience".

Adblock doesn't seem to catch the clickbait titled "news" articles on news sites like CNN and Fox News.

I know, I know... get my news somewhere else.

 

[cbrunny]

I like those sites, but I agree that for a review they're not good. An article should be an article. Those read more as advertisements, which I think they are appropriate for.

 

[Ichinisan]

When doing a google search for anything there's no telling what kind of sites you can land on, and javascript is a great vehicle at getting infected. So is flash and java and all that other crap, but you normally need javascript to call up those things.

If you disable Javascript, you might as well disable HTML. Javascript is how web pages work these days.

I've never gotten malware that wasn't deliberately installed by an idiot friend. I sometimes deliberately browse unscrupulous websites too.

Leave Javascript on.

 

[Ichinisan]

Adblock doesn't seem to catch the clickbait titled "news" articles on news sites like CNN and Fox News.

I know, I know... get my news somewhere else.

Those are sometimes mixed with legitimate articles from the site you're browsing.

I don't know why web sites monetize themselves that way. If I had a blog that made money, I'd think that kind of stuff would hurt the reputation of my site. Even if it's profitable to advertise that way, I would refuse to.

 

[CurseTheSky]

parallax design. It's everywhere now

And it sucks. I work for a web design firm and I can't wait for this particular trend to die out.

I can stand the "minimalist" site trend - tons of white space, grays instead of blacks, some pictures and relatively few words - but parallax makes me roll my eyes.

 

[deadlyapp]

I can't stand them. The push is to make everything tablet friendly, and remove as much information as possible. Dumbing down everything, imo.

Amazon has been changing a lot in recent months. Half the time, my home page there is just a giant collection of photos, no real information about anything, I have no idea how this happened, but it pisses me off. Web designers are starting to assume that people are just stupid, I think, and only respond to simple pictures.

I mean...people are stupid, but it's never a good idea to assume that your audience is stupid. It makes them angry.



It's because of this Marantz asshole:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist

These douchenozzles produce zero content but filter it out of all other content generators, tweak titles and verbiage to do nothing more than enhance "clickability," then blast it back out across their dozen or so stupid list-based websites.

Do yourself a favor and never click on a link to something with such a stupid title.

Jesus that article makes me want to firebomb that guy.

 

[vi edit]

I don't know why web sites monetize themselves that way. If I had a blog that made money, I'd think that kind of stuff would hurt the reputation of my site.

"News" sites jettisoned their reputations years ago. Now it's all about hype, hysteria and getting the first word out on anything...fact checking be damned. Most news sites are nothing more than clickbait (slide shows), videos with a 30 second ad in front of it, and a wall of advertising around a few links and thumbnails.

 

[MarkXIX]

#web3.0 #batterydrain #failweb :awe:

You'd think that with more and more devices being mobile and having batteries, they'd try to go easy on us. Not to mention data plan restrictions and such. Nope.

 

[Ns1]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist[/url]

These douchenozzles produce zero content but filter it out of all other content generators, tweak titles and verbiage to do nothing more than enhance "clickability," then blast it back out across their dozen or so stupid list-based websites.

Jesus that article makes me want to firebomb that guy.

Seeing how much money he makes I just want to copy him. True entrepreneur though, throws everything against the wall, doesn't mind stuff falling and concentrates on what sticks.

 

[deadlyapp]

Seeing how much money he makes I just want to copy him. True entrepreneur though, throws everything against the wall, doesn't mind stuff falling and concentrates on what sticks.

And it's not that that bothers me, I understand tailoring to peoples innate urge to click on shit and be viral and using that to your advantage to make money, but more that he's so callous about everything else in the world and is ready to watch it burn.

Spartz does not call what he makes journalism, even if he employs a few journalists, and he does not erect barriers between his product and his means of promoting it. Asked to name the most beautiful prose he had read, he said, “A beautiful book? I don’t even know what that means. Impactful, sure.”

Spartz never had to shift in the first place. “We considered making Dose more mission-driven,” he said. “Then I thought, rather than facing that dilemma every day—what’s going to get views versus what’s going to create positive social impact?—it would be simpler to just focus on traffic.”

It's too bad about the journalists. That poor girl Chelsea DeBaise sounds like a good journalist and is caught up in some shit ass website. That would be so demoralizing.

 

[Jeff7]

Various applications are doing it, too. Tab to the next field, and instead of being able to type right away, I have to wait for some pointless fading effect to finish, then it'll start accepting input. Some of these effects will briefly max out one core of a ~2.?GHz i5 processor. I'm so glad that tens of millions of transistors are being used for something like that.

They should be busy processing the embedded 60MB GIFs that periodically show up in the JHH thread.

I can't stand them. The push is to make everything tablet friendly, and remove as much information as possible. Dumbing down everything, imo.

Amazon has been changing a lot in recent months. Half the time, my home page there is just a giant collection of photos, no real information about anything, I have no idea how this happened, but it pisses me off. Web designers are starting to assume that people are just stupid, I think, and only respond to simple pictures.

I mean...people are stupid, but it's never a good idea to assume that your audience is stupid. It makes them angry.

"Assume" implies that the idea could be incorrect.
The Internet has allowed us to "meet," even just in passing, far more people than any previous generations could have. The true breadth and depth of "stupid" becomes clear whenever you visit Youtube or Tumblr or Twitter. Anyone can put anything online. The revelation of "average" can be somewhat distressing at times.

It's because of this Marantz asshole:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist

These douchenozzles produce zero content but filter it out of all other content generators, tweak titles and verbiage to do nothing more than enhance "clickability," then blast it back out across their dozen or so stupid list-based websites.

Do yourself a favor and never click on a link to something with such a stupid title.

Nope, datamining isn't an issue at all. "It won't hurt me in any way, why should I care?"

You're a creature of habit, and you can be analyzed until a computer can figure out how to manipulate you, preferably without you even knowing it. If a computer can effectively analyze people to death just for the sake of making clickbait headlines, don't you wonder what else they could do? Elections, mess with your buying habits, entice you into debt...
If you're the sort who says "I'm not susceptible to that sort of thing," I've got some bad news for you.