From the OP's comments on Reddit - he said that it happens about 90% of the time on that stretch and that he has more footage of the same exact incident.
He was likely prepared for it, which kinda makes it even scarier in a way. An inattentive driver would have totally botched this.
Idk why everyone in here and on r/redesign can't take off their rose-colored glasses and admit that current (old?) Reddit has some pretty glaring usability issues.
I know I avoided Reddit for the longest time simply due to the fact that there was a learning curve at all...and I know many, many people that would adore Reddit actively avoid it because it's a little overwhelming and hard to use at first. People seem to really underestimate just how important that first couple of seconds on a new website are.
Granted, a lot of people pushed passed the quirks and the learning curve and grew to love the site we all know today - that's evident by the massive user base - but I just don't understand why everyone is so vehemently against a redesign effort when the site was clearly a hodgepodge.
Now, I'm not arguing that the current redesign is great and a smashing success, I think they're missing the mark on what made Reddit great in the first place...but to sit here and yell "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is laughable. The performance might be superb but the UX is atrocious, everyone has just learned to get over it.
> The performance might be superb but the UX is atrocious, everyone has just learned to get over it.
I guess I'm one of those. I've been using reddit since before they enabled comments. I love that it's remained simple and it works really well for me.
The only items I'd imagine improving on would be remembering collapsed threads (like HN does) and preserving a deeper history of threads I've seen (maybe opt-in if it bugs people).
What's the "learning curve" that you refer to? Voting and comments are pretty simple, right?
I've had to explain Reddit to my mom--she wanted to see what her kids were so busy with all the time--I can tell you that voting comments aren't nearly as simple as they might seem.
Neither is the concept of subreddits, the difference between text and link posts, subreddit discovery, the community and culture... These were all hurdles that she needed to get through and at the end she gave it up. Too complicated.
The difference between her and most Reddit users is that she was determined to get active on Reddit: she kept trying for weeks.
The difference between her and most non-Reddit users is that she's quite tech-savvy. She worked in tech for 20 years. She fixes her friends' computer problems.
Well, if her experience is representative of other folks, then I suppose it is a problem. But is it one that a new interface could fix? I believe that it's possible, but it's not obvious to me how it would be improved. I'm not experienced at all in UI/UX design.
> The difference between her and most Reddit users is that she was determined to get active on Reddit: she kept trying for weeks.
I don't understand -- she persisted and others who use reddit don't/didn't? Meaning they don't need to apply significant effort and she did? Does that mean that it's somehow intuitive to them and not her? I feel like I am missing the point you're making.
> But is it one that a new interface could fix? I believe that it's possible, but it's not obvious to me how it would be improved.
A new interface could fix a lot of the issues, but I think the jury is still out on whether or not the current redesign is fixing those issues.
In my opinion, the higher level concepts of subreddits and subreddit discoverability are one of the main hurdles that brand new users have to understand and overcome. Most people that don't know anything about Reddit just assume it's a massive forum of people posting random shit - and don't bother going much further than that.
I think the new sidebar and the overhauled search are a great start at making the browsing experience much more intuitive - but the new profiles and messenger are all questionable design decisions that feel a lot less "Reddit" and a lot more "Facebook".
Right off the bat it appears that user account info lives outside the custom styling of each subreddit, this is a good thing and creates consistency for access to my stuff.
Secondly it looks like each subreddit gets to decide which view works best for the content of that subreddit. /r/askscience will benefit from a compact view, while /r/pics would benefit from a card view. As long as I'm able to change the default and have it stick next time i access that subreddit, I'm all for this.
There are parallels to Craigslist/POF here. All 3 sites have a reputation for being ugly, and having glaring "usability issue" yet are extremely successful and resist even common-sense change.
Do people really do this? I can sort of understand grouping shorter stints into "Freelance" or "Consulting" ...but to just outright lie and say you were at a company for 6 months longer than you actually were? All it takes is one phone call and your cover is blown.
> All it takes is one phone call and your cover is blown.
Not necessarily. When I was interviewing for the job I have now, they were trying really hard to weed out people like OP who claimed to have been at one place for a longer time than they had. They demanded HR contacts for my last _three_ jobs (which in my case stretches all the way back to 2002) so they could make sure that the start & end dates I put on my application matched up with what HR stated. Well, we ran in to an immediate problem with the second job ago - the company had gone out of business since I left, and there was nobody to contact. They shrugged their shoulders and moved on to the most recent job. Well, that was a startup, too - when I started working there, it was a contract-to-hire position, so I was actually an employee of "warm body providers corp" for the first six months. Then, when I was converted to perm at that job, it was bought by "megaglobalcorp" a year later. Then, about six months before I was let go, megaglobalcorp sold our entire office to "evilcorp, inc." who decided to shut down the office (which is why I was out of work in the first place). So when HR at the job I have now started making calls, I had had _four_ different employers in a three year period, even though I had been in the same office, sitting at the exact same desk, reporting to the exact same boss throughout the entire period. I think I may have explained this to the "currentjob" HR eight times before they finally gave up and decided to trust me when I said I had only had three different jobs in the past 16 years.
I am in a similar acquisition/merger type situation. Same department, same desk, four different legal entities. I'm just including the three main ones in the same entry for my resume.
It was a pain in the butt when I bought a house, though, and I needed to write a formal letter explaining all the changes and why it looks like I kept switching jobs according to my tax documents.
Yep, I'm not looking forward to filing taxes this year - I have W-2's from three different employers, just for me (not to mention a few months on unemployment, too).
This was my first thought too. The article doesn't mention this at all.
It sounds like they just pulled people off the street, tested for the protein, and assumed causality. Wouldn't they have to had tested the same subset of people over time to make their claim?
If it was created as a portfolio piece, I'd say it's successful. If it was created as useful and repeatable reference for the digital product/service/whatever industry, it falls short.
I don't think it's trying to be a definitive reference. It seems more like those posters you put around the office to remind you of things you value or you think are important.
Everyone is taking this fairly seriously. I doubt HN is the target demographic for this sort of thing though.
As a portfolio piece, it's great. I don't really care that it's not the most usable thing in the world - the underlying concept is sound, it's easy to see a lot of effort went into the design and execution, and the site looks great! Buuuut that's about all it's good for in it's current form.
Unfortunately, the way something looks is but a tiny, tiny factor in the scope of the overall UX. This totally falls apart as a reference piece that I can bookmark and go back to from time to time. I think this is also compounded by the fact that the content of the site is centered around preaching good UX - but doesn't adhere to it's own advice. I can forgive lapses in UX thinking on software engineering blogs or the latest and greatest crypto forum...but if your site about UX has bad UX, you're in for a bad time - especially on HN.
The grossly oversimplified answer... as long as a not-insignificant amount of people keep believing in its value as we approach the 21 million cap - it will continue to rise quite significantly. Simple supply and demand.
It could have literally zero utility whatsoever - as long as people keep buying the hype that this will one day be a massive store of value - it will be a massive store of value.
The better answer ...no one knows anything. 100% unadulterated speculation.
He was likely prepared for it, which kinda makes it even scarier in a way. An inattentive driver would have totally botched this.