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Re: Terra Bella

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

dbcurtis wrote: post #43

Is there a readable version of the web site that doesn't have obnoxious scrolling? Someone needs to tell their designers about the Principle of Least Surprise. I'll look at this after they fix this so it doesn't give me a headache.

The worst part was trying to Back. Just scrolling actually adds a bunch of URLs to your back queue, so when you want to back out of the URL, you end up hitting back like ten times. :/

I suppose New Tab would be my best friend here so I can just X it, but weird abuse of basic browser functionality should be shamed.

Re: Terra Bella

#52

Post by ocdtrekkie »

trequartista wrote: post #11

Very ambitious. Will be interesting to see how it pans out. Interestingly, Google acquired Terra Bella in 2014. Even though the domain says google.com, is this an Alphabet subsidiary or part of Google itself?

My guess is it would be, but hasn't been formally spun out yet?

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by iSnow »

evmar wrote: post #14
rbinv wrote: post #3

Unbearable scrolling behavior in Chrome on a late 2013 MBP.

I (and likely many others on this site) am tired of people complaining about weird-scrolling sites, but this one is exceptional: I can't get it to actually display the content! At some point scrolling gets somehow stuck and I can't scroll down anymore.

Works for me with Firefox 46 and no ad-blocker/script-blocker except uBlock.

However, navigating the page is confusing as hell, I stumbled through it by using the little arrows on my scrollbar. Everything else would catapult me to seemingly random positions on the page. Seems to me they hijacked scrolling to make "one line down" "one section down".

Not going to lie, after fighting with the scrolling, I closed the page and came here to look for an explanation what this is all about - not going to click any links there.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by dhimes »

zzleeper wrote: post #19
frisco wrote: post #15

Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome. Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.

I still do not know how is this actionable. So, they have satellites that take cool pictures, ok. Are they selling the stuff? Sharing an API?

This is afaict a pr buzz piece. They apparently are hiring.

Re: Terra Bella

#58

Post by ocdtrekkie »

S4M wrote: post #9
taylorwc wrote: post #2

This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.

Yep, it's a very ambitious project, but the scrolling is utterly broken for me (firefox 43.0 on Debian), and seeing from other comments, I'm not the only one. Wonder how someone can possibly ship a website where the scrolling is so broken.

If you saw the launch of YouTube Gaming as well, or how the old version of Google+ ran on not-Chrome, you'd have long reached the conclusion that nobody at Google tests on non-Google web browsers. My understanding is they like using 'web technologies' that they invented that either aren't implemented or well-supported in any browser but their own.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by trymas »

Readable version: [view-source:https://terrabella.google.com/?s=about-us&c=about-history] (paste whole text in between brackets, seems like HN does not support markdown links)

Great content, though original presentation is unusable. My whole computer started to lag, not only the web browser (chrome). Probably Google's web developers use very powerful workstations..

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