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Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

I got three slides in and the "Swooshing!" was driving me nuts. I'm sure the content is fine, and the presentation is simply gorgeous.

For me ... unusable.

Edit: In the end, at the end, I found the PDF. It seems a little light on content, but I guess I'm not the audience. Not sure who the audience would be, though.

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At the end you can download a PDF. I must say I prefer that over the slow web page.

To be honest I always leave a page immediately if it's way too fancy, especially when stuff starts moving and fading, I simply hate it.

For the people suggesting reading the pdf or disabling JS, you're missing the point of this submission.

90% of the value is in playing with their interactive demos. (though all of them seem to be from https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ so it might be better to go there directly instead)

If those links are the intent of this page, the "Swoosh! Swoosh!" is a great way to hide them.

There's a maxim in publishing: Don't bury the lede.

Another fine Example of we cant even do Web Pages, let alone Web apps.

On Safari, simple scrolling makes the content unreadable.

Disabling JS helps.

PDF: https://complexityexplained.github.io/ComplexityExplained.pd...

(Multiple languages available.)

Having read the pdf, I was underwhelmed. There doesn't appear to be any meat here, merely restatements of the obvious.

Maybe this could be more useful for you?

"An Introduction to Complex Systems Science and Its Applications" https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2020/6105872/

A far more appropriate title would be "Complexity: A very brief introduction to major themes with bibliography".

The booklet is 20 pages covering aspects with a one-paragraph description, several examples as a bullet list, list of concepts, and two references for further readig.

The title sets up rather greater expectations.

It is so slow, that after the title slide I scrolled through three slides and stopped, because I thought something was wrong. Then the slide appeared and I realized I missed three slides, because of those animations being so slow and not at all correlated to how fast I scroll or how far I'm in.

> Edit: In the end, at the end, I found the PDF. It seems a little light on content, but I guess I'm not the audience. Not sure who the audience would be, though.

Thanks for that. I suspected as much. I'll wait to read something more serious, less market-y.

What really bothered me was that the animation only started when the new slide hit the top of the page. When I was not scrolling perfectly, the top most rows of text where already hidden.

Same here, page up/down almost works, but misses text, gave up.

They may want to add an option to have all the context in a single column, centered.

This is hard to use on wide screens right now - it's kind of like watching a tennis match

On mobile Safari, navigation is fine. It’s probably a simpler versions of the desktop one.

Turn off JS, fixed :)

ToJ;F!

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