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Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by mstefff »

axod wrote: post #26

Scrolling is seriously broken. (ff3/OSX) You display some articles, then I scrollwheel, and things go bezerk. I scrollwheel down and it jumps up and down like a kid with hyperactivity disorder. There's no scrollbar - I have no idea where I am in the list of stories. Trying to match up where I was with where I am now is pretty hard. You've put up/down/top/bottom buttons at the very top and called them "Navigate". So y…

I could perhaps restore the scrollbar and keep the buttons if they are desired. I've barely had any issues with the scrolling, with the exception of Opera.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by mstefff »

byrneseyeview wrote: post #30
mstefff wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't anything wrong with the wrap-around. If you're at the top of the list you shouldn't scroll up, you should be scrolling down towards the bottom.

Have you watched someone actually use your app? Here's how it went for me: start at the top, scroll down a few days, scroll back up to the top, somehow end up scrolled back weeks . It's arbitrary to loop after a few days -- if you could collect data going back to the beginning of each company's history, that might be more sensible. I don't see any real-world analogue to going forward from the present and ending up se…

The list of items goes back the latest 100 items. When you are scrolling towards the bottom and you reach the end, it brings you back to the top.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#34

Post by axod »

mstefff wrote: post #32
byrneseyeview wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you watched someone actually use your app? Here's how it went for me: start at the top, scroll down a few days, scroll back up to the top, somehow end up scrolled back weeks . It's arbitrary to loop after a few days -- if you could collect data going back to the beginning of each company's history, that might be more sensible. I don't see any real-world analogue to going forward from the present and ending up se…

The list of items goes back the latest 100 items. When you are scrolling towards the bottom and you reach the end, it brings you back to the top.

Really really unintuitive.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#35

Post by axod »

mstefff wrote: post #29
jjburka wrote: post #24

Looks nice. The only thing I found is if you scroll up in the news list area it doesn't stop at today's news , it loops back to a couple days ago. Which is rather unintuitive.

As I said earlier, if you're at the top, you shouldn't scroll up, you should scroll down.

How do you know you're at the top? There's no scrollbar to tell you ;)

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#36

Post by mstefff »

axod wrote: post #26

Scrolling is seriously broken. (ff3/OSX) You display some articles, then I scrollwheel, and things go bezerk. I scrollwheel down and it jumps up and down like a kid with hyperactivity disorder. There's no scrollbar - I have no idea where I am in the list of stories. Trying to match up where I was with where I am now is pretty hard. You've put up/down/top/bottom buttons at the very top and called them "Navigate". So y…

New window link fixed. Worked fine earlier. Strange.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#37

Post by mstefff »

maxklein wrote: post #33

It's brilliant, exactly what I need. Excellent for hobby stock traders. I don't want to sign up for an account though, I just want to be able to edit that top bar. Till you implement that, I won't sign up.

You would really rather input all your symbols every time you visit the site? Instead of filling out a 4 field simple form?

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by tstegart »

It does a nice job of laying out information, so I give top points for information design. The scrolling is a killer though. sounds like you really love the idea you came up with, but unfortunately, its very annoying and very confusing. It was like that Star Trek episode where they keep repeating the same day over and over again. You need to give the user some indication they have reached the end, whether its the top or the bottom. I'm sure the code looks great, but its bad user design on that point.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#39

Post by maxklein »

mstefff wrote: post #37
maxklein wrote: post #33

It's brilliant, exactly what I need. Excellent for hobby stock traders. I don't want to sign up for an account though, I just want to be able to edit that top bar. Till you implement that, I won't sign up.

You would really rather input all your symbols every time you visit the site? Instead of filling out a 4 field simple form?

No, I want to see Visa. I have no interest at all in any other stock. So I want to edit it and view the news on that, and I would expect the site to remember this for the next time. When I am more invested in the site and I plan to use it regularly, then I will make an account. But right now I'll put it on my toolbar and just lurk for a while, as I want to use it to see news on a single stock.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#40

Post by streety »

mstefff wrote: post #29
jjburka wrote: post #24

Looks nice. The only thing I found is if you scroll up in the news list area it doesn't stop at today's news , it loops back to a couple days ago. Which is rather unintuitive.

As I said earlier, if you're at the top, you shouldn't scroll up, you should scroll down.

This reminds me of those adverts with a big red button and some uninformative text. Give someone a button and they're going to press it.

If the reaction they get isn't what they expected they may well hold it against you.

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