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

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Post by greatreorx »

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.

"if you're at the top, you shouldn't scroll up,"

Why not? If I don't know I'm at the top, my only choice is to scroll up. You don't give any visual clues as to where I am vertically - it's impossible to tell if I'm at the most recent headline. If I want to go back to the very top, my only choice is to scroll up until I can't any more. Ideally if I'm already at the top and I scroll up and nothing happens, that tells me I'm at the very top of the window.

Assuming the user knows he's at the top and so then 'shouldn't scroll up' seems like a bad assumption.

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

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Post by mstefff »

swombat wrote: post #49
mstefff wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

After asking your users for feedback, it's generally useful to listen to them. Here you have a sample of users who are saying the wrap-around navigation is totally broken for them. What's the right answer to that? Hint: it's not: "No, you're wrong, it works fine."

I was just explaining the idea behind it. I'm not disagreeing. I'm removing the scrolling mechanism for the article list completely.

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

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Post by j2d2 »

chollida1 wrote: post #22

- Scrolling is too slow, - Page loads are too slow If your going to target the investment banking community, you'll find we want our information fast. You'll notice the old stock tickers had symbols whizzing bye, not slowly scrolling. If I detect even the slightest lag I'll go somewhere else, probably an rss reader.

You're still much more up on tech than most people I work with. To them, if it's not in bloomberg it doesn't exist.

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

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Post by baha_man »

czstrong wrote: post #15

Incompatible Browser. I'm at a large Nation-wide law firm and stuck on IE6. I imagine there are Wall-Street corporationss that are also still using old browsers.

I tried it in Opera, got the 'unsupported browser' message, copied the URL and opened it in Firefox. When I got the same message again, it took me a second to realise that it was because the URL was now http://www.streetread.com/browser rather than http://www.streetread.com/.

Also, the name 'streetread' made me think it would be something like Google Maps rather than a stock quote site.

Looks very nice, though.

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

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Post by alex_c »

mstefff wrote: post #28
swombat wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The wrap-around scrolling made it unusable for me, but I'm assuming that will be fixed somehow. Looks great, and I'm going to forward it to some of my friends once the wrap-around is working.

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.

User: Feature X makes it unusable for me. Developer: There isn't anything wrong with feature X.

That is not a very healthy attitude towards feedback... good luck training users to do something they don't want. You have to account for dumb user behaviour and prevent unexpected results.

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

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Post by auston »

mstefff wrote: post #4
auston wrote: post #3

I say it's semi-useful. But very easy to use. 1 thing though... I don't like what happens when I try to scroll up on news stories for a stock.

Are you referring to how the list loops to the end? You're supposed to be scrolling down but I see how that could get confusing. I was worried some users would scroll in the wrong direction.

Yep.

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

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Post by mstefff »

mstefff wrote: post #46
mstefff wrote: post #44

Ok, the weird article scrolling is being removed momentarily. Thank you for the feedback.

now if only ie7 didn't butcher overflowed divs..

Someone wanna lend a css hand? Why is ie7 running the div off horizontally on every other content load?

http://www.streetread.com/bad.png

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

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Post by iron_ball »

czstrong wrote: post #15

Incompatible Browser. I'm at a large Nation-wide law firm and stuck on IE6. I imagine there are Wall-Street corporationss that are also still using old browsers.

As a long-time Opera user, I can say that this incompatible browser landing page crap has got to go. Either bend over backwards to satisfy everyone, or gracefully degrade, or collapse entirely without a warning message -- but I'm using a perfectly competent browser and you're locking me out of your damn site. 0/10.
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