This is a Facebook-free Zone
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Re: This is a Facebook-free Zone
#12How about you make it a Disqus free zone too?
What's wrong with Disqus?
Re: This is a Facebook-free Zone
#13Why is this on HN?
Re: This is a Facebook-free Zone
#14I have never got myself into the facebook train, and I haven't lost much.
But what it's starting to annoy me are the widgets. While I'm aware it's a very nice source of traffic, this is getting out of hand and the reason is simple: the iframes.
iframes are one of the slowest elements in HTML (in my personal experience) and while having one or two loading into your site, is not really a bad thing, it really adds up when you load 10 or more Just check Seth Godin's main page [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/], try to scroll down and look how it blocks your browser for a few seconds. I think that's a very bad experience.
When I started using Adblock, the web started loading a LOT faster without all the ads (loaded with an iframe). And now, I'm starting to block these widgets on a site basis (starting with Seth's blog, via adblock), but I'm sure pretty soon I'll have to block them all.
I think this is one of the main reasons Google Reader sucks so much: the Plus One button. It has no keyboard shortcut, it's slow to load, it freezes up the browser-- I had to create a Greasemonkey script to block them all and now the experience is a little bit better. Let me know if you want me to upload this GM user script.
What I'm trying to say is that if you're going to build a professional website/webapp in 2012, you'll have to consider mobile. And if it freezes my browser for a few seconds, imagine what would it be for my smartphone browser. I think here's a good idea for a startup: widgets without all the lag (and privacy concerns).
Re: This is a Facebook-free Zone
#15Re: This is a Facebook-free Zone
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with Disqus?
One disadvantage is since the comments are inserted with Javascript, certain robots have a hard time parsing them.
Other disadvantages:
You're handing over control of your user base to a third party. Some people don't like Disqus tracking them all over the web.
Re: This is a Facebook-free Zone
#17just mashed this together in ps: http://i.imgur.com/nW7ut.png somebody probably can improve a bit on shading and proportions - but you get the idea...
White on white doesn't look good. I'd suggest a red symbol instead. It also needs some aliasing.
Re: This is a Facebook-free Zone
#18I have never got myself into the facebook train, and I haven't lost much. But what it's starting to annoy me are the widgets. While I'm aware it's a very nice source of traffic, this is getting out of hand and the reason is simple: the iframes. iframes are one of the slowest elements in HTML (in my personal experience) and while having one or two loading into your site, is not really a bad thing, it really adds up wh…
"Just check Seth Godin's main page"
Loads and runs lightning fast for me. Of course, I'm using RequestPolicy, so I don't have to load all of the third party crap that he includes from addme.com, google.com, sethgodin.com, facebook.com, quantserve.com, youtube.com, feedburner.com and scorecardresearch.com