Future of the New York Times
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Future of the New York Times
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Re: Future of the New York Times
#2What is up with the scrolling on that site? It's jumps to hyperspeed about 1/2 way down the fold
Re: Future of the New York Times
#3What is up with the scrolling on that site? It's jumps to hyperspeed about 1/2 way down the fold
It looks like they're using nicescroll[1] for "custom scrollbars". Not sure why they felt the need to re-implement scrolling on a mostly text website, but there it is.
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#4The javascript-run inertial scrolling is too distracting from the article for me to be able to read it.
Looks like it's nicescroll[0], a jquery plugin (!!!).
If you had a browser extension that allowed you to execute js on each page you visited, the plugin can be turned off if you define `$.niceScroll = true`.
Maybe I should write that one day.
Re: Future of the New York Times
#5Watching the video makes me think this is some kind of parody site. It starts out with some depressed looking worn out dude slouching in his chair mumbling incomprehensibly.
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#6While I'm sure we're all frustrated with the scroll hacking, can we just not discuss that and instead focus on what an interesting and exciting project this is? I really wish I had a class half this interesting in undergrad.
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#7I applaud the NYT for opening itself up like this, and for giving these students a seriously cool project to work on. Who knows how many of their ideas will actually be practicable? But at least the NYT is expressing intellectual curiosity and submitting itself to examination. And it's willing to be examined by a segment (college students) that few other media organizations would take very seriously.
Also, apropos of nothing, kudos to these kids for sneaking a Pied Piper logo into one of their pages. :)
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#8What is up with the scrolling on that site? It's jumps to hyperspeed about 1/2 way down the fold
I was going to watch the video, but gave up. Not only the scrolling is bad, but the FPS too.
Here is the free WordPress theme the site is based off for comparison: https://wordpress.org/themes/moesia/
Re: Future of the New York Times
#9While I'm sure we're all frustrated with the scroll hacking, can we just not discuss that and instead focus on what an interesting and exciting project this is? I really wish I had a class half this interesting in undergrad.
This should probably be a rule on HN: no complaining about scroll hacking. (Although, sure, let us stipulate that it is awful.) Some threads would be cut by half.
Re: Future of the New York Times
#10What is up with the scrolling on that site? It's jumps to hyperspeed about 1/2 way down the fold
also breaks swipe back