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by solardev 948 days ago
Am I just really old, or is this web design atrocious...?

I know HN skews traditionalist anyway, but even here, a site this bad stands out.

I feel like normally we argue about user-invisible stuff like JS frameworks and analytics and tracking, but in this case it's a very in-your-face design meant to subvert all the common UX best practices in favor of something chic.

Does anyone like this? (Who is supposed to?) I can't tell anymore if I'm just old-fashioned and grumpy, and totally out of touch with modern preferences, or if this is just... universally bad.
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scaryclam 948 days ago
It's horrible. Obnoxious loading, scolling and I couldn't see the product on my laptop until I scrolled, so it wasn't easy to even see what this "new species" of webcam looked like (page loads better on my desktop, so YMMV).

The product itself looks suspiciously like a regular web cam as well, so it wasn't even worth the wait ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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heavyset_go 948 days ago
It's just comically over the top for a webcam IMO
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sottol 948 days ago
Has a Teenage Engineering vibe imo, which is a fan-favorite here.

https://teenage.engineering/

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solardev 948 days ago
That one strikes me as "minimalist but readable". It's clean and simple, and you can scroll down and read everything, one by one, left to right, without being assaulted by flying tiles or distracting animations that take your eye away from what it was trying to read.

This one, on the other hand, reminds me of a "YouTubeified" website, where every thirty seconds there's some insane distraction flying in from the side of the screen and begging for your attention.

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sebtron 948 days ago
Honestly, I can't tell.

Literally: I clicked on the link and all I could see was a white dot blinking on a black background. After about 20 seconds I gave up.

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yjftsjthsd-h 948 days ago
Does it change if you scroll down? I also thought it was broken until I started scrolling and the page decided to show itself to me after all.
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solardev 948 days ago
Their preloader is kinda screwed up and causes a bunch of JS errors on load. It non-deterministically loads the home page sometimes but not always, depending on whether it thinks you are looking at the tab... maybe a race condition in there somewhere?

Just terrible all around =/

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sebtron 948 days ago
No, blinking dot all the way down. Waiting some more does the trick.
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