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by CraftThatBlock 1740 days ago
I think this is a bug on Firefox, as my Firefox does the same behavior but works fine on Chrome based browsers.
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More like poorly implemented user agent sniffing done by "Genius"
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.
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

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.

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