the 'someone just joined this page. boom!' is so annoying and distracting. if that were to stay, i wouldn't ever use the site.
what it says to me is, 'we are more interested in eye candy then real features'.
why?
because you are constantly trying to distract me from the actual content.
the 'take another poll' button constantly gets covered by the noise.
the techie side feels the need to tell you that i had to get my cursor in just the right place ( using latest google chrome ) to even make the next poll button work, that is when an annoying 'someone just voted' message would let me. i tried. took me 2 minutes to manage to click it.
Great feedback. We just launched this today and honestly didn't expect it to be #1 on HackerNews. We're going to start grouping the messages together and less often so they aren't as distracting like:
"Bensign, Bob, Joe & 17 others just joined the page".
what it says to me is, 'we are more interested in eye candy then real features'.
why?
because you are constantly trying to distract me from the actual content.
the 'take another poll' button constantly gets covered by the noise.
the techie side feels the need to tell you that i had to get my cursor in just the right place ( using latest google chrome ) to even make the next poll button work, that is when an annoying 'someone just voted' message would let me. i tried. took me 2 minutes to manage to click it.