Hacker News Reader

Comment by umaar | Hacker News Reader

Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif.

Really curious as to why.

View on HN

Haha, it's janky and cropping parts of some logotypes too. Totally against the otherwise smooth animations and style in the rest of the page. It looks bolted on and I wouldn't be surprised it was a late decision to showcase some publishers and added by non web devs...

Was making me dizzy looking at it!

Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon.

>> Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon

Why? You and the parent comment seem to imply that there are no crappy web devs, or at least none at FB. There are crappy people in every profession, as well as mostly good people who are crappy at just some aspects of their job.

Benefit-cost ratio of owning your own CDN.

Bring back the `<marquee>` tag.

And it looks terrible. I’d guess that this site was thrown together by an outside agency, as these landing pages usually are by companies. In my experience these agencies don’t care about anything but getting paid, and will yield absolutely trash. And why wouldn’t they? They never have to deal with it again and the company hiring them probably doesn’t care, it’s just a marketing landing page. Then the company wants to change it some day and thinks it can just be handed off to engineering, because “it’s just code” and “how hard could it be” and fuck now I’m just sad. I am so done with tech lol, I can’t wait to get out.

Yeah it was stuttering, which is why I was inspecting it. I assumed it was a CSS transition, but without hardware acceleration.

Outside agency makes a lot of sense to me.

When you say get out of tech, you wouldn't happen to mean on a ranch would you? Been seeing more and more references to tech folk wanting to escape to such places ha!

I know it’s such a cliche to want to leave tech for the ranch haha. No I just plan to pursue some of my own adventures that still involve technology, just outside of the Silicon Valley tech startup world.

You sound pretty jaded. But your thoughts don't really match my experience with software agencies as you mentioned. I previously worked for a software consulting shop/agency. Our mindset wasn't just build some crap software and deliver as you might imagine, we actually put care and effort into our work despite half the team being freelancers who might never work on the product again.

I too have worked with such agencies that actually care, and of course they exist. I guess I wanted my hot take HN comment and didn’t take the time to explicitly state that not every software consulting agency produces low quality work. If you don’t mind me asking, did you work on marketing landing pages like this one or something else? These marketing pages in particular are what I am calling out.

I think it is important to differentiate software agencies and digital marketing agencies. Early in my career I worked at a few digital marketing agencies and this does feel very similar to what could be churned out. Everything was sold on the design. Sales teams would promise, mockups would be signed off on by clients without engineers looking at them, and there was usually a rush because of time and/or money once the project made it to the engineers hands.

This is what I mean, thanks for adding the clarity that I neglected to. I did make it sound too much like a personal attack against the implementers here, but you’re right in that the ones hiring the agencies are just looking for the fastest possible output, not quality, and applying that pressure.

and when you click on how it works, it greets you with a 31MB gif

Reply on news.ycombinator.com