[chops]

Holy crap, the overdone continuous scrolling and animation makes that page almost useless. Scroll a little bit, and suddenly I'm jumped to a different part of the page. Don't scroll too far up, or it loads the previous article right in place, and doesn't keep you where you were. Then the top-bar seems to come down at random.

What a frustrating example of overdoing an attempt at a "rich experience" thus hindering the user experience of trying to just read the goddamned article. I'll take the bullshit multipage approach that clickmongers use over this goofy and unintuitive interface.

[philwelch]

You know, one of the eternal downsides of a discussion site filled with web developers is that whenever you post a link, instead of discussing the actual content, the top-rated comment is far too often an angry criticism of the website design itself, followed by tangent about Javascript or something.

[lostlogin]

And this is why I keep coming back! The off-topic stuff is great.

[RyanMcGreal]

In this case, the website design is so horrible as to render a discussion about the topic impossible, since the design has made it impossible to read the damn thing.

[Justen]

That seems a tad melodramatic..

[mnicole]

Have you been to the site? It's not at all navigable on desktops. When you can't even read the content without being shoved into another section of the site entirely, it's kind of a big deal.

[philwelch]

I managed to read it on a desktop just fine.

[angryasian]

hardly, it could be because I block all their trackers on the site, but I just see a spinning circle.

[smutticus]

I consider this an eternal upside.

[Osiris]

That's the first thing I noticed. Somehow I accidentally scrolled up three articles or so and I couldn't find my way back to this article. I had to back out to HN and click the link again and then I was super careful not to scroll too fast lest I end up on some other page. Horrible user experience.

[zalew]

qz.com should have a warning sign "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!".

it's worse than blogspot.

[FaddiCat]

I've been to this website a few times and I've never gotten past the loading throbber.

[rplnt]

I don't remember 99% of sites I visit from HN but I somehow remembered this one and I've only seen it once. Maybe that's what they are aiming for.

[paul9290]

Uh yeah i'm not on a tablet or phone; horrible experience!

[rurounijones]

Try running it whoutt JS enabled. Nothing says quality like three levels of nested scrollbars.

[janerik]

A lot better to read via Instapaper: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F44671...

[rhizome]

wasn't there some other HN article that was posted from this site? there were plenty of complaints then, too.

ugh, there's a bunch. all clickbaity headlines: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=qz.com

[thedrbrian]

Like a load of "mobile optimised" websites it only gives the smart phone user 5 or so words per line of text. Amazing when you consider my first Internet capable only had a monitor with a mere 60 thousand extra pixels compared to my phone.