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Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif. Really curious as to why.
Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif. Really curious as to why.
Just in time for the official launch of https://upstract.com later this week.
Until the publishers came, dragged him to court on claims of copyright infringement (for doing deep links into the articles). That was a time, when clicking on a teaser brought you to a category page where you had to click the teaser again to get to the intended article. Why? To increase ad impressions. Sometimes you had to click three or four levels deep.
So they feared the lost ad impressions. They pulled the big guns on a high school kid creating a service. He agreed to delist them and the service was dead in the water. Because nearly every publisher wanted his sites to be delisted.
One or one and a half years later Google entered the German internet with Google News and the publishers sued again - this time it came to a trial and Google won. But 20 years later the publishers still try to lobby for laws against aggregators, against quoting from "their" news.
Thanks for this trip down memory lane into the late 90ies. Now I feel old. ;-)
Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif. Really curious as to why.
And it looks terrible. I’d guess that this site was thrown together by an outside agency, as these landing pages usually are by companies. In my experience these agencies don’t care about anything but getting paid, and will yield absolutely trash. And why wouldn’t they? They never have to deal with it again and the company hiring them probably doesn’t care, it’s just a marketing landing page. Then the company wants t…
Outside agency makes a lot of sense to me.
When you say get out of tech, you wouldn't happen to mean on a ranch would you? Been seeing more and more references to tech folk wanting to escape to such places ha!
Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif. Really curious as to why.
And it looks terrible. I’d guess that this site was thrown together by an outside agency, as these landing pages usually are by companies. In my experience these agencies don’t care about anything but getting paid, and will yield absolutely trash. And why wouldn’t they? They never have to deal with it again and the company hiring them probably doesn’t care, it’s just a marketing landing page. Then the company wants t…
Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif. Really curious as to why.
Haha, it's janky and cropping parts of some logotypes too. Totally against the otherwise smooth animations and style in the rest of the page. It looks bolted on and I wouldn't be surprised it was a late decision to showcase some publishers and added by non web devs...
Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon.
Build a more personalized news experience? Hide publishers you're not interested in? Don't people from facebook see this'd increase the already existing polarization and information bubbles?
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And it looks terrible. I’d guess that this site was thrown together by an outside agency, as these landing pages usually are by companies. In my experience these agencies don’t care about anything but getting paid, and will yield absolutely trash. And why wouldn’t they? They never have to deal with it again and the company hiring them probably doesn’t care, it’s just a marketing landing page. Then the company wants t…
Yeah it was stuttering, which is why I was inspecting it. I assumed it was a CSS transition, but without hardware acceleration. Outside agency makes a lot of sense to me. When you say get out of tech, you wouldn't happen to mean on a ranch would you? Been seeing more and more references to tech folk wanting to escape to such places ha!