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PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by callum85 »

fiatjaf wrote: post #14

"You look nice today". This habit of saying horribly false compliments to the user is an awful trend that is affecting programmers everywhere. See https://www.npmjs.com/login , for example.

I think it's nauseating when websites have non-ironic conversational copy ("Hey there! How are you feeling today?" as a prompt to write a status update on Facebook).

But on the NPM site I think it's different, it's a joke. It says "you look lovely today, btw". That's clearly mockery/irony. The help section is headed "you need help", for example.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by umyaaaa »

mQu wrote: post #6

Why is this any different than Flash preloaders just a moment ago? And even worse - it doesn't show any progress so there isn't any user feedback. Every (bad) pattern seems to repeat itself. Just using current-cool-tech. I would much more appreciate that dev time would be put into a framework that allows graceful enchancement by deferring loading more heavy components and to allow user to interact with the site ASAP.…

typical HN response. complain first.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by ZoF »

ryanSrich wrote: post #47
mQu wrote: post #6

Why is this any different than Flash preloaders just a moment ago? And even worse - it doesn't show any progress so there isn't any user feedback. Every (bad) pattern seems to repeat itself. Just using current-cool-tech. I would much more appreciate that dev time would be put into a framework that allows graceful enchancement by deferring loading more heavy components and to allow user to interact with the site ASAP.…

Like what Facebook's web app does? They load the page first leaving the comments and photos "spinning" (it's more of a gradient fluctuation, but indicated loading). This free's you up to interact with the rest of the site.

Yes, that's what he means.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by bbcbasic »

Funny not long ago there was a HN comment saying this would be a good idea (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8765778)

Of course it all depends how keen your users are to wait for the thing. If it is an online game and they clicked a link to play it then they may be happy to wait.

For most sites this would make me hit the back button if it didn't load in 5 seconds.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by bbcbasic »

umyaaaa wrote: post #52
mQu wrote: post #6

Why is this any different than Flash preloaders just a moment ago? And even worse - it doesn't show any progress so there isn't any user feedback. Every (bad) pattern seems to repeat itself. Just using current-cool-tech. I would much more appreciate that dev time would be put into a framework that allows graceful enchancement by deferring loading more heavy components and to allow user to interact with the site ASAP.…

typical HN response. complain first.

Typical HN response is honesty.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by mtrpcic »

jhdavids8 wrote: post #23
mQu wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's missing the point - just like other comments said - if you need this you're doing it wrong. I sure was guilty of big sites just as much as the next guy. It just saddens me that insted of promoting what we've learned it the past years and applying to current projects we're doomed to repeat bad UX from before.

Maybe you're right, but I certainly think there are some valid cases where this could be useful. I'm not saying use it in every project, or use it as a workaround to a larger architectural issue, but if you have a single page app that does not render templates on the server, showing something like this while you make a few AJAX calls and compile the data returned into your client-side templates isn't the worse thing…

I agree with you on this. There's a large subset of the web development community who are shifting towards building desktop applications with web technology (atom-shell, node-webkit, brackets-shell, etc.). In a lot of these cases, the app bootstrap process is actually loading data/content that is required for proper app functionality. Desktop apps commonly use loading screens on boot to indicate this process (Photoshop is the example that comes to mind). I think this is a great tool, and will fit well with that subset of the web-dev community particularly well.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by DINKDINK »

umyaaaa wrote: post #52
mQu wrote: post #6

Why is this any different than Flash preloaders just a moment ago? And even worse - it doesn't show any progress so there isn't any user feedback. Every (bad) pattern seems to repeat itself. Just using current-cool-tech. I would much more appreciate that dev time would be put into a framework that allows graceful enchancement by deferring loading more heavy components and to allow user to interact with the site ASAP.…

typical HN response. complain first.

Why is complaining bad? If no one ever complained, we'd still be riding horses.

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by fiatjaf »

Stratoscope wrote: post #32
fiatjaf wrote: post #14

"You look nice today". This habit of saying horribly false compliments to the user is an awful trend that is affecting programmers everywhere. See https://www.npmjs.com/login , for example.

Wow, I never looked at that page before. It's creepy from the top: you look lovely today, btw. to the bottom: you need help Well, which is it? Do I look lovely, or do I need help? What possible business is it of yours, dear npm? And what about the person who just suffered a facial injury and is very aware of how unlovely they look at the moment? At least Slack rotates through a few different sayings that tend to be g…

> Was the more likely outcome that I would fail to install it?

Hilarious.

Well, I think all these things are suspicious and maybe (I don't know) even bad in nature, but they have levels of badness, "you look lovely today, btw" is considerably worse than any form of birthday congratulations -- although I'm also suspicious of the second, which, here in Brazil, is a little more common thing to say than "happy birthday" (people just say "congratulations!").

Re: PleaseWait.js – Show your users a beautiful loading page while your app loads

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Post by fiatjaf »

ddoolin wrote: post #21
fiatjaf wrote: post #14

"You look nice today". This habit of saying horribly false compliments to the user is an awful trend that is affecting programmers everywhere. See https://www.npmjs.com/login , for example.

Like the AMC theatres pre-show messages where it says something along the lines of "Thank you for being _absolutely amazing!_" Makes me cringe SO HARD every time. Why are we telling people they're amazing for existing? Haven't we identified the issue with much of today's youth is that their egos were often overinflated by their parents, teachers, etc, leading to problems of entitlement and whatever else that entails?

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