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Re: Making our new homepage fast and performant

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Post by astkaasa » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 8:44 AM UTC

DylanDmitri wrote: post #61

pier25 wrote: post #34

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I find them quite annoying. I'm pretty sure the only people enjoying these kind of animations are the designers themselves. Most people don't go to a website to have an "experience". They just want to find some information as fast and easily as possible.

To be fair, I go look at Stripe's homepage every couple months just because it's pretty.

I believe stripe's designers include @destroytoday, his design of paper 53 impressed me a lot several years ago [1]. Surely it also contains animations, but it's more elegant and smoother.

[1] https://destroytoday.com/blog/building-the-pencil-page

Re: Making our new homepage fast and performant

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Post by piotrkaminski » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 9:04 AM UTC

wffurr wrote: post #113

xapata wrote: post #107

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What's the five-dollar bill in this metaphor? I'd like to use it. Currently my employer has told me to use a one-dollar bill. As I continue with your metaphor, I struggle to see what insight it's giving.

Critique at Google is pretty great, but internal-only. I don't know of any commercially available tools that are even close. This commenter says reviewable.io is closeish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19102930

Creator of Reviewable here. It's been a while since I used Critique, but if anyone in the know wants to tip us off on features we're missing that would make Reviewable a "five dollar" tool we'd love to add those in!

Re: Making our new homepage fast and performant

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Post by kreeben » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

musicale wrote: post #135

kreeben wrote: post #101

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I googled "performant" but the search result wasn't performant. https://www.google.com/search?&q=performant

Haha, indeed. The google incantation (yielding its definition as a computing jargon term for "functioning as expected") seems to be "performant definition" but "performant" is still a terrible word.

I'm assuming you're saying this because your native language is English. I, for one, accepted the word almost immediately.

Re: Making our new homepage fast and performant

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Post by dbbk » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 6:04 PM UTC

Minor49er wrote: post #65

tppiotrowski wrote: post #33

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This reminds me of a massive flame war when Atlassian switched to circular avatars for projects https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-28275

This is a pretty typical Atlassian experience. They push changes and will often ignore negative feedback which results in flames. When I had to use them at previous jobs, I had a couple of favorite threads that I liked to follow. One of these was "Hitting Escape key while editing issue description loses contents" [1] which took about five years to address. Another was "Was blame removed from source tree?" [2] where A…

Blame is a terrible name for that feature though