Every pricing page should have GIFs • Hacker News Board

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#101

Post by oauea » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:03 PM UTC

ldng wrote: post #64

And what about the visually impaired ? You add a soundtrack ? So basically a video. Of course the a transcript is available, right ? So instead of going full circle, how about a good old text in the first place ?

Why bother laying out a website? Just send people an email explaining the offer, right? Hell, just tell them in person! That certainly will be accessible.

Off-topic: Why are you putting spaces before your question mark but not your period or comma ?

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#102

Post by Waterluvian » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

I always assumed that the pricing pages were intentionally vague so that the buyer could take a small set of true words and imagine what they want the feature to be, rather than what it actually is.

Of course this can frustrate users. But that's not to say that this ends up being a net positive anyway.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#103

Post by robertoandred » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

What on earth did this site do to scrolling? Spacebar doesn't work, arrow keys work really weirdly...

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#104

Post by Rebelgecko » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

throwawayboise wrote: post #99

franciscop wrote: post #15

Don't use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead. They can be made to work in the exact same way as GIFs (autoplay, loop or not, etc) but are a fraction of the bandwidth.

Do they work if the user has disabled autoplay in browser media settings? This is one of the first things I do when setting up a browser.

Some (all?) browsers will still play autoplay videos as long as there's no audio track (or if it's muted by default)

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#105

Post by barrenko » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

No, it should not.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#106

Post by hahamrfunnyguy » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

franciscop wrote: post #15

Don't use GIFs, use audioless mp4s instead. They can be made to work in the exact same way as GIFs (autoplay, loop or not, etc) but are a fraction of the bandwidth.

What do you use to encode the MP4s?

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#107

Post by EForEndeavour » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

robertoandred wrote: post #103

What on earth did this site do to scrolling? Spacebar doesn't work, arrow keys work really weirdly...

Spacebar: replaced by GIFs.

Arrow keys? Believe it or not, also replaced by GIFs.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#108

Post by judge2020 » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

robertoandred wrote: post #103

What on earth did this site do to scrolling? Spacebar doesn't work, arrow keys work really weirdly...

It's a Notion-published site, so arrows select "blocks" (pieces of content) on the page.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#109

Post by conductr » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

InsomniacL wrote: post #18

I like the demo of each feature, but hate the box of text and video hanging off my mouse cursor. There must be a better implementation then that.

I feel like this much content needs it's own section. Having the onhover on my cursor that resizes and moves around so much as a move the mouse or page up/down is pretty horrible UX. I'd do something like how MS Excel has Task Panes on the right of the window. Then each thing can have an image/video and a paragraph explaining and showing what it is. The main issue here though is he's trying to explain/list all these tiny little features instead of just simplifying the page which is probably causing analysis paralysis and hurting conversions, so adding more information is probably just salt in the wound. He really just needs to get people to sign up and see the features and they'll be self explanatory, up sale from there.

Re: Every pricing page should have GIFs

#110

Post by superkuh » Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

Every site that's not an application, just a way to display text and media, should progressively enhance it's function with javascript, not require it's execution to see anything at all.

This tdinh.notion.site fails that very low bar and is just a blank white page. It both fails to communicate it's desired message about GIFs and communicates that it's not a voice to listen to on this subject regardless.