Tuesday, March 26, 2013

A-yup

Don't even get me started.  [Read]

If you don't like it, go away.
Posted by David Codrea at 3/26/2013 12:58:00 PM

1 comment:

Kevin Wilmeth said...

It certainly doesn't look like things have improved much since I dropped the Examiner gig, although I'd probably wager that things have been "improved" many times on your behalf. :-)

For what it's worth, David, I don't envy you the headache. On the consumer side now, I certainly find the Examiner experience to be tiresome*, but nothing that would keep me away from the distinctly unique content that the GREs provide there. You should be proud of that--you did build that, and you've done it well.


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* And "tiresome" is truly the right word. All the annoying traps and tricks can be handled, either with automated help or by manually dodging the ones that get through. Right now, the most exasperating ones are the auto-playing video streams in desktop browsers (which on the flipside have taught me a touch-memory of where my computer "mute" button is), and on mobile, where a banner ad frequently occupies the middle 20% of the screen, and sticks there: you have to read around it, being careful not to tap the ad itself, but scrolling through it instead. (If these ads have any sort of "close" region, I'd welcome someone pointing out where it is.) Who knows what they'll think of tomorrow?

I still find it somewhat astonishing that these tactics must, at some level, be successful enough to keep perpetuating them, but here we are anyway, right?

3/26/2013 3:31 PM

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