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Comment by mje__ | Hacker News Reader

Fascinating article. I also really enjoyed the presentation - the mix of writing, video and images worked well together. This is the first time I've seen the "BBC Magazine", and the experience is great.

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on mobile (android), it was absolutely awful, every few scrolls it took over my screen and started automatically playing a video. if i wanted to watch the video in your article, i would press play, don't force it upon me

The software they used (shorthand.com) says it's in private beta - I'm sure they'd appreciate feedback. Otherwise on a laptop it was fantastic.

Are you using the stock Android browser? I found it presented well on Firefox for Android. And I didn't have trouble with the videos playing automatically, something which I also hate.

More than the article, I enjoyed the presentation. The whole design is very intricately woven together with various media elements. I loved the style but at the same time I was slightly annoyed by not being in control (probably the auto changing images with scroll was slightly over the top). I wonder how's the user experience with others.

I had the opposite experience; usually I can't stand when a website tries to do something novel with my scrolling, but here all they did was update to a more relevant map alongside the text, for example. I was a bit too ecstatic to see that.

Agreed: the presentation is excellent. Very much in the tradition of the BBC's radio 'From Our Own Correspondent'.

It says it was built with Shorthand - http://shorthand.com/ . Anyone know of an open-source equivalent?

I found the multimedia presentation to be over-designed, clunky, unusable nonsense.

I found it extremely frustrating myself.

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