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The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by Cooro »

jimmaswell wrote: post #150
sysk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that it's hosting torrents in flat files or in database rows seems like a minor technical difference to me. Apart from that, the same broken UI doesn't seem to have changed much in the past 8 years. I didn't know that TPB was open source... surprised that the community didn't try to improve the UX a bit.

Broken UI? Really? The posters here are so peciliar about UI sometimes. It's bewildering. Nothing was wrong with TPB's UI. It did exactly what it was meant to cleanly and in an easy to use way. Nothing was difficult or unintuitive about it. Did it not look starkly minimalist enough? Did it not use enough css3? Did it use a table and that just ruined the whole thing? Not enough fancy javascript transitions?

The search results where garbage if you didn't know that you had to click "SE" to sort by number of seeders.

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by sysk »

Cooro wrote: post #191
jimmaswell wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Broken UI? Really? The posters here are so peciliar about UI sometimes. It's bewildering. Nothing was wrong with TPB's UI. It did exactly what it was meant to cleanly and in an easy to use way. Nothing was difficult or unintuitive about it. Did it not look starkly minimalist enough? Did it not use enough css3? Did it use a table and that just ruined the whole thing? Not enough fancy javascript transitions?

The search results where garbage if you didn't know that you had to click "SE" to sort by number of seeders.

Yes, among other things:

- You often had to scan through the comments for a clickable IMDB link.

- Movie meta data was manually entered by uploaders who didn't really bother with it most of the time.

- Titles contained a bunch of metadata which shouldn't have been part of the title (e.g. encoding, source, quality, uploader name, etc.).

- There was sometimes an extra comment page that was empty.

- No moderation whatsoever in the comments. Impossible to find the interesting/useful comments without reading all of them one by one.

- A bunch of annoying ads (one of the download buttons was an ad if I recall correctly).

There's a recurring meme on HN that all UIs are automatically good if they are old/non-trendy.

Re: The Pirate Bay down, forever?

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Post by jimmaswell »

sysk wrote: post #193
Cooro wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The search results where garbage if you didn't know that you had to click "SE" to sort by number of seeders.

Yes, among other things: - You often had to scan through the comments for a clickable IMDB link. - Movie meta data was manually entered by uploaders who didn't really bother with it most of the time. - Titles contained a bunch of metadata which shouldn't have been part of the title (e.g. encoding, source, quality, uploader name, etc.). - There was sometimes an extra comment page that was empty. - No moderation whatso…

The only meme is that old UIs are the /bad/ ones. Those points are all very minor. A major problem would be having an inoperable half-assed mobile version that you were redirected to on mobile.
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