Designer News Statistics

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40 points·maximveksler··7 comments

It's interesting to see the comments on this submission: http://aquatilis.tv/ ( https://news.layervault.com/stories/21015-site-design-aquati... ). I'm pretty sure that if the same site was submitted here, 80%+ of the comments would about how slow and heavy the page is, but it is not even mentioned once on DN. (I'm using a maxed out rMBP with 16GB of RAM, a Core i7 and and a 2GB video card and it can't scroll the website smoothly).

I have an older 4GB RAM MBP and it feels smooth to me. The scrolling is janky because of parallax, not from performance problems. After that site loads it's fast and usable.

I've seen ad infested blog posts give this MBP way more trouble.

My main gripe with the Designer News site is the main and comment pages are not well designed. Huge amount of space between headlines and comments makes it hard to skim. This statistic page looks and reads much better.

Using a standard Win8 PC, and it works fine for me. I'm guessing there's something going on in your computer that's causing that to happen.

Which is great to me. I think there is a time and place for sites that are inspirational in creativity and those that focus on functionality.

Having never seen Designer News before this, the icons were meaningless to me. A tooltip on hover or something similar would be really helpful.

(I realize this is mostly a problem with DN, but either way I think it's good UX.)

Otherwise, very cool!

Any recommended reading from that list?

I see a lot of meta-posts, and many links i've already seen on Hacker News

Check out the top, I'm sure you'll find something interesting.

If you're web-developer try Top posts > CSS. Also try top stories from GitHub and top-Medium posts (they are a lot of tech-realted and not necessary design-realted topics).

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