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Comment by npizzolato | Hacker News Reader

So you're basically just arguing that their webpage doesn't have a good layout. If you want to dismiss the product because of that, that's your choice, but I wish people would keep complaints about website design to themselves. They're so boring. I come to HN to read insightful commentary about articles and projects, and complaints about the websites themselves just make me roll my eyes.

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To be honest, this is actually a good strategy ... producing a poor layout that is. I've found a lot of times, a post either has a lot of comments/votes because the product idea was stupid and/or something unrelated about the product was less than impressive.

So if you are launching a product on Hacker News, it might be worthwhile to create two separate landing pages. Create one that is less than informative/provocative to get the votes/comments and then switch to a more informative one when you have secured a front page position.

But bad websites are correlated with bad products: the same incompetents are responsible for both, either directly or indirectly through accepting the work of bad designers and consultants.

Personally, I found the fullscreen pointless animations an arrogant abuse of my bandwidth and of my eyes, and the lack of content above and below the fold (and of scrolling and of the fold itself) a powerful source of claustrophobia; I noticed the tiny links to merely bad pages moments before closing the page in anger.

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