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How you play Spades is how you play life

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Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by traceroute66 »

wilg wrote: post #10
traceroute66 wrote: post #8

I have to say... what terrible UX ! Scroll right? In a world where literally everyone else scrolls down ? Its completely un-natural if you're not using a tablet or smartphone ! Unless you have one of those fancy mice with the horizontal scroll button, but most people won't and will have to click and drag (rinse and repeat).

Works great on a Mac, which have horizontally-scrolling trackpads or mice. But obviously they did this as a fun layout for a card game!

> which have horizontally-scrolling trackpads or mice.

Same category as tablets and smartphones my friend.

How about the billions of other internet users who have a keyboard and mouse ? At least make it keyboard tap or mouse-click friendly !

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by nomel »

traceroute66 wrote: post #8

I have to say... what terrible UX ! Scroll right? In a world where literally everyone else scrolls down ? Its completely un-natural if you're not using a tablet or smartphone ! Unless you have one of those fancy mice with the horizontal scroll button, but most people won't and will have to click and drag (rinse and repeat).

This is similar to how cards are arranged in front of you in spades, and most card games. I think you can understand the artistic choice, from there.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by traceroute66 »

nomel wrote: post #12
traceroute66 wrote: post #8

I have to say... what terrible UX ! Scroll right? In a world where literally everyone else scrolls down ? Its completely un-natural if you're not using a tablet or smartphone ! Unless you have one of those fancy mice with the horizontal scroll button, but most people won't and will have to click and drag (rinse and repeat).

This is similar to how cards are arranged in front of you in spades, and most card games. I think you can understand the artistic choice, from there.

> I think you can understand the artistic choice, from there.

A.K.A. Form over function / Style over substance ... a well trodden design road that never takes you in the right direction.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by Jtsummers »

traceroute66 wrote: post #8

I have to say... what terrible UX ! Scroll right? In a world where literally everyone else scrolls down ? Its completely un-natural if you're not using a tablet or smartphone ! Unless you have one of those fancy mice with the horizontal scroll button, but most people won't and will have to click and drag (rinse and repeat).

From the site guidelines:

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

Your post and the ensuing thread is a great example of why this made it into the guidelines. An interesting article, but over half the comments are a discussion about the page's format. 1/4 (at the time I submit this) of the comments are yours, and they add no value to the conversation.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by reidjs »

traceroute66 wrote: post #8

I have to say... what terrible UX ! Scroll right? In a world where literally everyone else scrolls down ? Its completely un-natural if you're not using a tablet or smartphone ! Unless you have one of those fancy mice with the horizontal scroll button, but most people won't and will have to click and drag (rinse and repeat).

I disagree, I think the horizontal scroll was done tastefully in this instance and they had plenty of signifiers to make it clear you are supposed to scroll right to view the timeline.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by darkwizard42 »

Loved the article. I come from a family of four and sometime when I was in college we picked up Spades as a family. Definitely resonated with me as a way to bond with friends and family.

also for those interested: https://www.trickstercards.com/home/spades/ is an excellently developed FREE online spades site that we used during the pandemic

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by klyrs »

traceroute66 wrote: post #8

I have to say... what terrible UX ! Scroll right? In a world where literally everyone else scrolls down ? Its completely un-natural if you're not using a tablet or smartphone ! Unless you have one of those fancy mice with the horizontal scroll button, but most people won't and will have to click and drag (rinse and repeat).

I thought it was kinda cute, but immediately clicked reader-mode. It's better than the Guardian's evolving background images that totally break scrolling and readability...

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by jandrewrogers »

Spades has long been the standard card game in the US military, which is at least partly responsible for its widespread propagation. That is where I learned it, and most other people I know either learned it in the military or from someone that was in the military.

That said, I never played it that much outside the military. These days everyone seems to play poker.

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