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Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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Re: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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So there's a bigger story here: good lord is the web-design here irritating.

They've overridden scroll events so they at best don't work properly. Scrolling on a laptop gives you a weird non-mapping slide animation.

This is seriously one of the most unreadable articles, from a design sense, that I've ever seen.

Re: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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post #3

So there's a bigger story here: good lord is the web-design here irritating. They've overridden scroll events so they at best don't work properly. Scrolling on a laptop gives you a weird non-mapping slide animation. This is seriously one of the most unreadable articles, from a design sense, that I've ever seen.

I just came here to post the same thing. Can't really read it from ipad.

Re: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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post #3

So there's a bigger story here: good lord is the web-design here irritating. They've overridden scroll events so they at best don't work properly. Scrolling on a laptop gives you a weird non-mapping slide animation. This is seriously one of the most unreadable articles, from a design sense, that I've ever seen.

Horrible to scroll on mobile as well. With chrome on android, you first see Snowden's face with a bunch of numbers on the top. If somehow you figure out that you need to scroll (on mobile, the scrollbar is usually not visible until you scroll), you have to go through seemingly pages of nothingness. AND IF SOMEHOW you still don't give up, there, CONTENT!

On firefox for android, I actually see "The most wanted man in the world" overlay on top of Snowden's face as I scroll. That somehow was not visible in chrome.

Re: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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post #3

So there's a bigger story here: good lord is the web-design here irritating. They've overridden scroll events so they at best don't work properly. Scrolling on a laptop gives you a weird non-mapping slide animation. This is seriously one of the most unreadable articles, from a design sense, that I've ever seen.

Agreed. My finger is now broken from the amount of mousewheelin' I had to do to get past Snowden's mug.

Re: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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"Among other things, I want to answer a burning question: What drove Snowden to leak hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents, revelations that have laid bare the vast scope of the government's domestic surveillance programs?"

if the article presents a different answer than what's already known, through snowden statements communicated to laura poitras and greenwald, then they're probably not true, and if it repeats the same stuff, this is obviously a stupid question to ask and the article's just marketing b.s.

Re: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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post #3

So there's a bigger story here: good lord is the web-design here irritating. They've overridden scroll events so they at best don't work properly. Scrolling on a laptop gives you a weird non-mapping slide animation. This is seriously one of the most unreadable articles, from a design sense, that I've ever seen.

Some people thinks™ this kind of design is actually good, especially for tablets. For me they look like one of those powerpoint presentations of cute cats that you used to receive from your aunt a couple of years back...

Re: Edward Snowden: The Untold Story

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post #3

So there's a bigger story here: good lord is the web-design here irritating. They've overridden scroll events so they at best don't work properly. Scrolling on a laptop gives you a weird non-mapping slide animation. This is seriously one of the most unreadable articles, from a design sense, that I've ever seen.

And the seriousness is kind of lost with banner ads for Cheetos.
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