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by adamrezich 4009 days ago
I don't want to be That Guy, but I really don't think the UI is very intuitive. A lot of things really bug me about it. It's hard to peruse a list of posts and scan headlines, unlike on Hacker News or reddit. You compose comments with a serif font, and then the comment is posted with a sans-serif font. It appears as if all URLs are just frizbee.co/#SomethingGoesHere, regardless of what it is. This makes me lost a lot because I'll click the logo in the upper-left corner because I want to go back to the homepage, but it doesn't work. It also means that I have no idea what a link is before I click on it. When I see reddit.com/u/takua108, I know that it's takua108's user page. When I see reddit.com/r/dota2, I know that it's the Dota 2 subreddit. When I see https://frizbee.co/#ICameHereFromHackerNews558b70ef40cdf, I have no idea what the hell to think. Plus, there's no comment permalinks, and it looks like every link is using javascript or something, because I can't even hover over the link to see where it leads!

I like a lot of the ideas behind this, but I feel like the execution is very, very poor.
1 comments
__z 4009 days ago
Its even worse than that. Navigation is just totally broken. For example I clicked your link then on that page I clicked Our Manifesto. The URL changed to https://frizbee.co/#OurManifesto5589a552786d5 but the page content did not change! This seems to happen all over.

Totally dont need to re-engineer hyperlinks. They are hyperlinks!

(logo in the left hand corner does change the url to https://frizbee.co/#HotPosts but as you and I said it just doesnt work)

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frizbee 4009 days ago
These glitches have since been fixed.
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__z 4009 days ago
No they haven't. I don't notice anything different - still navigation bugs.

The real question is why? What are you getting from replacing hyperlinks with something that performs horribly and needs debugging and has a poor user experience?

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na85 4009 days ago
Performance is awful on my i7.

You should use less js. I should not be able to watch things being indented and layouts being modified as the page loads.

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lqdc13 4009 days ago
Yup can't even browse with JS turned off unlike HN/reddit.
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frizbee 4009 days ago
On the other hand, Tumblr requires JavaScript... and the sites you listed require it for voting and commenting.
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__z 4008 days ago
I find it funny you reply to this and not my comment above... what does reinventing hyperlinks get you other than screwing up user experience????

Because Tumblr does it too???

What is the positive???

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