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I agree. It's abysmal. Each girl has a separate "slide" with a photo and blurb. Hit "next" near the top of the page (even the landing page) to progress through them.

Yeah, they are using an annoying tool called onSwipe that is supposed to deliver a delightful experience on the iPad. In reality, it delivers an aggravating experience on the iPad.

I don't know why sites still use them.

I had to switch to the desktop version, repeatedly, until it actually took, then everything worked fine.

Because they bribe the sites with ad revenue and promises to not have to develop a mobile version themselves, presumably.

Which would be ok, if the OnSwipe user experience didn't suck so much for end users. I wish they'd publish a list of sites using onswipe so I could just skip those sites.

It took me awhile to figure out that I actually needed to click the photo to see the stories. I tried all the other links first.

Ah, so I'm not actually a complete idiot for not understanding how to use OnSwipe.