I find it really depressing that as I write this comment, the other top-most comments are complaining about the article's UX.
Meanwhile we are radically altering the natural environment. As the TFA spells out, so superbly.
Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter
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#13Here's a text-only version, so to speak. lynx --dump's output: https://pastebin.com/3wP3mL75
The images and gifs contribute to the story so I'd still recommend that people scroll through the original article even if they read the text here instead.
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#14I can't ignore the UX of this as simply not conducive to an article. It gives off such a strong PR vibe. Maybe it's just me
I tend to open & read articles on a vertical (Portrait-mode) 27" monitor. The amount of scrolling required to read a single sentence is... epic-legendary :=O
Edit: At the same time, my wife, who tends to prefer her phone: "I haven't finished it.. But such a visual treat. Interesting how they did that. Makes it feel very interactive."
So I'm clearly just not the target audience, which is fair enough :-)
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#15Whatever the strange presentation, there's something about it for sure. A friend of mine used to run a skilift in Norway, and he's noticed how the length of the season has changed for the worse. In the end he sold it, didn't seem as good a business as it once was.
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#16When will people learn that politicizing global warming will divide, not unite people. If human-made global warming exists, then the most immediate solution is a more lethal 2019-ncov. This is not hard to understand.
A very Modest Proposal.
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#17I can't ignore the UX of this as simply not conducive to an article. It gives off such a strong PR vibe. Maybe it's just me
Yeah, the whole scrolling for data thing is cancer. Who do people think this is how users want to ingest information? Its the 2020's equivalent of a flash based website.
Personally, I like how this website is styled. It’s really well executed. I think it caters to a very broad audience - people have become used to full screen pictures and small bites of texts evenly distributed (eg in Instagram Stories).
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#18I find it really depressing that as I write this comment, the other top-most comments are complaining about the article's UX. Meanwhile we are radically altering the natural environment. As the TFA spells out, so superbly.
Well, this is HackerNews, started by a technology company accelerator focused largely on web applications, for which UX is a top line discussion point.
The point being, the takes here are pretty on-brand.
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#19I find it really depressing that as I write this comment, the other top-most comments are complaining about the article's UX. Meanwhile we are radically altering the natural environment. As the TFA spells out, so superbly.
It’s not an article, it’s a slideshow with pictures. Who actually wants to consume information like this?
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#20I think this is one of those instances where the UX makes it better.
It forced me to slow down, parse each line one at a time, read line-by-line, image-by-image, and let the gravity sink in. I would have just skimmed it if it were a text article with a photo gallery, to no great effect.