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by plorkyeran 4268 days ago
This is an impressive amount of effort put into making the content unreadable. I sort of get what they're going for with the fade-in of content as you scroll down (although it's distracting as hell for actually reading rather than just looking at it), but what would possess someone to think that fading out text as I scroll down was a good idea? Crazily enough I like to be able to read more than two sentences without scrolling. I don't expect a site to use my monitor's full width, but I sure do expect it to use the full height.
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Maybe it's time to update this for the second decade of the 21st century: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
If they could just implement it in a lightweight fashion, I might be able to put up with it. But glitzy UI seems to routinely overload nearly every machine I use, which makes it 10x worse. Thanks, you not only made the UI worse, but now it stutters, my fans spin up, and my browser (sometimes) freezes. Progress!
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There you go.