Since we're all commenting on what's missing, here's another missing thing: you scroll down to the end of the article and a totally unrelated article begins underneath it.
How I Experience Web Today
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
After all the popups, it needs a last one saying "this site works best in our mobile app".
IMHO, it should be there as soon as you arrive on the site and then reappear on every page load.
And if you click past it to remain on the web version, you're presented with truncated lists ("Download App to read the rest!") or a slew of missing features.
I have an old Instagram account that I created over 10 years ago. At the time, I used it for the photo filters. Never cared about the social networking aspect. Just a month ago I logged into it for the first time in forever, and realized I wanted to delete those old posts. Guess what you can't do from the website? Yeah, delete posts. Need the app for that!
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#73Where's the auto-playing video that you can't get rid of, and which jumps into the sidebar and moves down along with you when you try to scroll past it?
Yup, and it has a close button that conveniently appears right beneath the scrollbar.
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#74This is less-bad than the real thing. [EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value. [EDIT AGAIN] What it really needs is a giant sticky header that hides when scrolling down but pops up the second you scroll up at all , obscuring all the stuff you were scrolling up to see.
> [EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value.
Yup. I think the author forgot to color the main article text, and to label it "also an ad".
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#75You would be amazed how much improved things are with Javascript switched off (which Chrome allows you to easily do, with exceptions). Give it a try.
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#76Where's the auto-playing video that you can't get rid of, and which jumps into the sidebar and moves down along with you when you try to scroll past it?
Yup, and it has a close button that conveniently appears right beneath the scrollbar.
The close button is a convenient 10x10 square consisting of a light blue X on a light gray background. It moves when you zoom in on mobile to click it.
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#77Love it, that basically sums it up.
I especially love that my browser asked if I really wanted to leave the page, got me with my own setup.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
A website is a tool, a means to an end. The purpose of chat popups or feedback forms is to further a business goal, not to increase the website's usability.
Is the business goal to get you to click the back button?
No, the business goal is to lie, trick, cheat and steal, to fuck a potential customer over so they part with their money.
That the customer may not be satisfied afterwards doesn't matter - there are plenty of mitigation strategies, such as lock-in effects, playing off sunk cost fallacy, or drowning negative feedback on third-party sites with bought ratings, reviews and social media likes.
Seeing a site like this should light an immediate warning site in your head, telling you that you don't want to be on the business end of their business goals.
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#79You would be amazed how much improved things are with Javascript switched off (which Chrome allows you to easily do, with exceptions). Give it a try.
Agreed, I'm especially fond of uMatrix lately for firefox.
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#80Since we're all commenting on what's missing, here's another missing thing: you scroll down to the end of the article and a totally unrelated article begins underneath it.
... immediately overwriting the URL in your address bar, so at the very moment you're most likely to share or bookmark the article you've just read, you can't.