I am not a designer (I think I'm actively bad at design even) so I don't mean to bash anyone, but as a user I find interfaces like this absolutely terrible:
It's so damned busy and distracting, where does the article stop/start? The article itself literally seems to stop at "Counting down from #100, here are the best sitcoms of all time." which is the clickbaity shit that gets you there in the first place. Where? Where is it? Can you find it? I can't.
@bkardell the MSN article design is such a hot mess and based on what I experienced while at Msft, you can't convince me it's not intentional to get people to accidentally click on any of those sponsored click bait links.
@seaotta Can you find the contents that it seems to suggest should follow? I literally cannot. And it's not just msn - this happens to me all the time and i just frustratedly go "you know what.. I don't have time for this bs" and bail
@bkardell I always struggle with these because they are a carousel. I don't have time to click through 100. Also on some articles, they put content behind a read more button that basically just reveals the rest of the article and I constantly miss that. It's not paywalled. Why is it necessary.
@seaotta OMG, so they say here they are, but the here is way above and not at all obvious. At a minimum, you'd like to see that carousel below the thing that says "here they are.."
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