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by yegg 4418 days ago
Here's the announcement I just posted on our blog: https://duck.co/blog/whatsnew

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback to us during our public beta period! Please keep the feedback coming so we can quickly iterate. We really do listen to it all.

4 comments

Ironically, that page fails with JS disabled.

Related: I've spent more than a few minutes on sites unwrapping carouseled content to just display stacked on the page. It's fucking annoying.

Carousels are definitely overused, but they can still be a solid choice, depending on your design goals. If you just want to make people look at more ads, then most people will not bother.

But, I clicked all the way through before reading the comments here because I found it a compelling way to tell their story.

edit: actually, I happily clicked through this: https://duckduckgo.com/about The "what's new" carousel did feel a little tedious.

FYI, the /whatsnew site seems to be roughly unusable on my iPhone; I can't switch bullet without making some weird unreproducible gesture.
I love this. I'm excited to share with friends. In fact I looked for a sharing button. Anyway, looks nice. It wouldn't scroll on my iPad and a button for Press at bottom right is cut off, but maybe those are known issues.
About one issue with the fonts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7773911