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Re: Why our website looks like an operating system

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Post by nonethewiser »

NicuCalcea wrote: post #315
keyle wrote: post #13

It's neat but it runs like a dog. I opened a couple of things and tried to move the window... I'd take a statically generated bunch of webpages over this. If you're going to make one of those multi window webpages looking thing, make it good. To note, in the past, this was a big no-no because SEO was important. You had to have good SEO for search engines to index your content efficiently and show up well ranked in se…

It took a good 20 seconds for it to fully load in Firefox on Android.

"omg mobile"

- some posthog dev waking up this morning after yesterday's release

Re: Why our website looks like an operating system

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Post by nonethewiser »

sgustard wrote: post #389
scosman wrote: post #356

Usability and perf experience for me: - I'm getting about 5 FPS scrolling on a M4 Pro - Moving a "window" around takes 29% of my CPU, and renders at about 2 fps - I'm losing about 40% of my screen height for reading (14" laptop screen). So much so none of the article is visible above the fold, just the title and by-line. - My browser's CMD-F finds things on layers hidden under the current window - Changing window siz…

No FPS or CPU issues on my M3, it's all very smooth. Same slow spreadsheet load as sibling, but that seems like a backend issue.

EDIT: nevermind, this is not correct.

It appears as though all spreadsheets are grouped together in the same window under tabs. Perhaps its fetching the data for all of them. I noticed they all took a long time to load and then after one loaded, the others had loaded.

I imagine that could be sorted out to load per tab. Im more concerned about the idea of grouping all spreadsheets together. As opposed to a normal website which could embed a datatable in whatever page layout you want.

In general it bothers me to encapsulate what are essentially just page layouts as apps.

Re: Why our website looks like an operating system

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Post by asa400 »

I played around with this for a while and couldn't actually derive any useful information from it.

As someone who doesn't know posthog, this was basically impossible to navigate. The UI and theme is cool, the widgets are fun and well styled, but I couldn't actually figure out what I was supposed to be doing, what I was supposed to be reading, what meaning I was supposed to take away about a company (I'm guessing) that makes products (again - guessing).

Re: Why our website looks like an operating system

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Post by discreteevent »

ryukoposting wrote: post #383
arghwhat wrote: post #357

Oh god. It has a pleasant color scheme, but this is an awful idea. By trying to recreate windows and bookmarks in the web app you're at best just implementing redundant features and getting in the way of the native browser features by trying to showcase yours, at worst breaking regular web usage entirely. Take their right click menu for items to select whether you want an in-app tab or real browser tab. Congrats, you…

I find it incredibly funny that this company has re-invented the horrid "nested window" UX of Windows 3.1, 30-something years after the fact.

> horrid ... 30-something years after the fact.

The article is specifically saying that they know that it looks like an OS - they think that this is an improvement and it lists the reasons why. You are just calling it old and horrid without addressing any of the points made.

Re: Why our website looks like an operating system

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Post by troupo »

9rx wrote: post #350
troupo wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that the law needs to be more specific, such as requiring browsers to work in coordination with website operators 1. The law isn't about browsers or websites. It equally applies to all tracking. E.g. in apps. Or in physical stores. 2. The world's largest advertising company could do all you describe. And they do work with websites. First by repackaging tracking through FLoC. Then by just simply repackaging tracking…

> It equally applies to all tracking. E.g. in apps. Or in physical stores. Obviously. And where there are problems in those domains equal specificity would be asked for. But since we're talking about in the context of browsers specifically...

> But since we're talking about in the context of browsers specifically...

... then we all know it only cookies that matter? I don't understand the ellipsis

Re: Why our website looks like an operating system

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Post by browningstreet »

asa400 wrote: post #394

I played around with this for a while and couldn't actually derive any useful information from it. As someone who doesn't know posthog, this was basically impossible to navigate. The UI and theme is cool, the widgets are fun and well styled, but I couldn't actually figure out what I was supposed to be doing, what I was supposed to be reading, what meaning I was supposed to take away about a company (I'm guessing) tha…

Once I hit the fake, non-functional scrollbars I tapped out. I'm not gonna decode what's fake and what's real in a webpage UI.
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