Usability problems [LWN.net]

Usability problems

Posted Jun 1, 2002 11:34 UTC (Sat) by mce (guest, #522)
Parent article: Welcome to the new LWN.net!

I have been an weekly visitor almost since day 1 of LWN and an almost daily one ever since LWN/Daily was created, so I was willing to loose some time making the site look usable again for me (I really hate all those extra colours, lines, andwhatnot). However...

The link color color settings don't work. (minor)
The new site is unbearably slow. (serious)
On every visit I have to log in again, making the slowness compliant even more important. This is a killer. I used to quickly check LWN Daily several times a day, e.g. while waiting for a compilation to finish, and coming from various computers (geographical locations even). There is no way that I will keep doing this if I need to log in each time in order to get my preferences back and then to discover that there is nothing interesting to be read.
I myself am not suffering from the font problems because my NS4 config is set to "always use my fonts" and my Mozilla config has a minimal font size set. But if what I read in the other comments is true there are some serious usabilities issues there as well.

All in all: I've always liked LWN a lot, but if the usability doesn't get back to the previous level, I'll soon say Sayonara. I hate to have to say it, but that really is how things stand as far as I am concerned.

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Usability problems

Posted Jun 5, 2002 13:28 UTC (Wed) by sphealey (guest, #1028) [Link]

# On every visit I have to log in again, making the slowness compliant even more important. This is a killer. I used to quickly check LWN Daily several times a day, e.g. while waiting for a compilation to finish, and coming from various computers (geographical locations even). There is no way that I will keep doing this if I need to log in each time in order to get my preferences back and then to discover that there is nothing interesting to be read.

Agreed - this is a killer.

Also, a bit more testing under Microsoft Internet Exploder would be helpful. Although I understand the desire to be "Microsoft-free", the sad fact is that IE dominates corporate desktops today. In the interests of evangalisim better IE support would be a good thing.

sPh