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Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by nmcfarl » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

mherdeg wrote: post #13

Reading a manifesto is probably not a good introduction to the site — it's a bit "tell" instead of "show". Submitted to news.ycombinator about ten hours ago, the qz.com "Check your US tax rate for 2012-and every year since 1913" might show a little bit more of the kind of interactive blah responsive blah storytelling multifluidic blah they aim to do: http://qz.com/37639/check-your-us-tax-rate-for-2012-and-ever...

That article is a way better intro to the site and frankly sold me on qz.

The content is good - and not content I’d seen anywhere else. More of this will keep me coming back.

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Link to the hn thread on that article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946820

Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by runawaybottle » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 5:31 PM UTC

I think better examples might be:

http://usatoday.com

and

http://app.ft.com

Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by tfb » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 5:44 PM UTC

I'm failing to see what all the fuss is about regarding the UI on this site. It's relatively minimalistic, easy to navigate, and the header condensing to a smaller version was slightly unexpected but I wouldn't call it "jarring" or a deal-breaker by any means. Someone mentioned that Mashable has a great UI and I'm going to have to strongly disagree. Mashable's UI is horribly cluttered and much harder to decipher, while I had no problem whatsoever navigating and understanding the Quartz site.

I did notice, however, that the header will drop back down when choosing another link or scrolling back up to the top of an article regardless of whether it's the top of the scroll area. This seems more like a bug than anything, not something intentional to the UI.

Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by pattern » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 6:33 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #14

The future of news has nothing to do with code. That's just "when all you have is a hammer" talk. We're already trending towards Facebook-ized/Twitter-ized news, and I don't think anyone is impressed. The problem with the news is content, and the people, and I don't think technology is going to help with either. As an aside, I just bought a subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek on my iPad (first newspaper subscripti…

The first time I have seen the word "fellatious" in the wild - thank you for bringing this gem to my attention :)

Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by tatsuke95 » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 6:44 PM UTC

heymishy wrote: post #2

am I the only person who gets a loading icon and no content? (Chrome 23.0.1271.97 m)

Same.

I've seen a bunch of Quartz articles coming up in the variety of aggregators I use. Unfortunately, they don't load.

Pro-tip: You're trying to get me to spend time reading your content. If I have to mess with my browsing setup to do so, I'm going to skip your articles. And I do.

Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by fudged71 » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 7:35 PM UTC

upinsmoke wrote: post #21

valisystem wrote: post #3

This is UI madness, things hides, moves and pop around with no obvious relation with my input. The main news timeline is promising though, but greatly needs visual codes for differentiating and qualifying content. It's great to focus on the content while not putting technology asides, but your publishing tool is also of strategical importance. It's great to have rethought the general way of showing information, but t…

Looks like iPad-ish UI. Tab bar on the left, pull to refresh etc.

The only full-screen responsive layout for articles that I like so far is smashing magazine... They know not to have all these fancy floating nav bars, or to have this crazy "scroll to the next article" thing. Pages should be treated as pages. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by cmars » Thu, Dec 20, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

Does not work with Javascript disabled. Temporarily allow qz.com, still broken. Lots of overly generic and/or suspicious tracking domains blocked. Tab closed.

Re: Welcome to Quartz

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Post by delambo » Fri, Dec 21, 2012, 1:39 AM UTC

I think a lot of the criticism in these comments is overblown. If anything, I would expect more constructive criticism and feedback from fellow HNers.

Quartz is a fairly new site with a small dev team. The site has had some kinks, but it is slowly coming together, and I think it has a lot of potential.