[cytzol]

I stopped using Genius after their mobile-first redesign. I really enjoyed reading their explanations and meanings behind songs I knew, with the lyrics in the centre of the screen and the annotations off to the side. But now, the annotations open under the lyrics, so I can't see the annotations and the lyrics at the same time, which makes it much, much harder to understand the explanations — and the rest of the page is bizarrely limited to 350 pixels wide. I can't say I'll miss Genius when it's gone anymore.

[CraftThatBlock]

I think this is a bug on Firefox, as my Firefox does the same behavior but works fine on Chrome based browsers.

[oauea]

More like poorly implemented user agent sniffing done by "Genius"

[nightpool]

It's actually an AB test—we know the annotations opening under the lyrics is disliked by some users, so we're working on an alternative 2-column design, which is currently in A/B testing.

[capableweb]

First time I hear purposefully degrading the UX being excused by it being A/B testing. You know it's disliked but still you do it?

The world is going crazy

[JxLS-cpgbe0]

Have you ever worked on multivariate tests?

Testing is how you learn and quantify how much something is disliked, or used, or leads to conversions. This is the perfect fit.

I prefer the 1-column layout (user since it was rapgenius.com). If they got angry emails from their users about their UX, and they decided to set up a test to improve it, that's not in the spirit of degrading the UX.

[wingerlang]

Maybe they know because of the A/B test? Seems like it could be a good idea and make the layout easier to use on mobile. I don't find it THAT bad on desktop, although on the side is better.

[pteraspidomorph]

Good to know you're moving towards putting the annotations back on the side, but please deploy that for Firefox users too.