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I heard about this via John Arundel @bitfield: https://twitter.com/bitfield/status/956167710156746752

> This is genuinely amazing, not just for the content, which is excellent, but it's also one of the most innovative websites I've seen

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I enjoyed the presentation but genuinely hated the website. Like, on a deep and personal level. I'm a little bit mad about how bad the experience of using this website is. There were several pages where I had no idea if I was waiting for something to finish loading, or if I was supposed to hit space to continue (I'm on a slow/unreliable 4G connection...I often have this problem, but I can usually figure out what's happening based on surrounding content and commmonly used affordances that hint at what actions are available and when). I know it's one-key navigation, very simple and seemingly impossible to get wrong, but because it's frequently loading large files, I frequently was in limbo about what to do (though by the end I stopped waiting and just started trusting it would do something if it had something to do...this ended up skipping at least a couple of things that I think would have been musical or interactive or something had I waited for them).

If this subject weren't really of interest to me, I would have noped out within a couple of pages.

Additionally to what you said, I find the prezi-style panning and movement between pages extremely distracting and jarring to the point where I did nope out.

Yeah, I generally dislike this style of site. I say it all the time: "Ease of use is often just what you're used to." And, nobody is used to a site working like this.

It's slides for a presentation that the author gave at an event. It's not meant to work like a regular website.

Also: sites on the front page of HN sometimes load slowly. Sure it can be frustrating, but hating the site on a deep and personal level over it seems a bit much.

I hate slides like this too. As I said in my previous comment, the movement is jarring and distracting. It breaks my concentration and focus. The worst offenders often leave me feeling almost dizzy. In my personal opinion, Prezi and the like has set presentations back quite a bit in terms of readability and comprehension. In a presentation, its even worse, because the slides often distract me enough that I miss some of what the speaker is saying too. Maybe my attenion span isn’t that good, but I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Just expressing my experience; I found it frustrating. If you like it, that's cool, too.

It'd be way better if there was a way to go back.

Left arrow or back button.

Oh. I tried that before and it didn't appear to work, but I think the change was just a slow and subtle one, so I didn't notice it.

The website was unusable for me. I find the topic super interesting, but it’s not worth the extra time to parse. Not the least of which is that on mobile the font sizes were strange and the text poorly placed. Edit: typos.

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