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Do people prefer this reading experience on mobile? Personally I found it very hard to want to continue reading with all the interruptions.

Etheryte 7y ago
No, this is insane. Having to scroll a full screen for a single sentence — who thought this was a good idea?
- fencepost 7y ago
  It's the kind of thing the NYT has been doing since Snow Fall back in 2012 [0], to mixed feelings [1][2][3]. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/new-york-times-snow-fall-feature/320253/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/new-y... [2] https://www.fastcompany.com/3020689/the-new-york-times-fights-snow-fall-fatigue-with-more-snow-falls-and-it https://www.fastcompany.com/3020689/the-new-york-times-fight... [3] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/snow_fall_the_jockey_the_scourge_of_the_new_york_times_bell_and_whistle.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/...
- scarejunba 7y ago
  It's more a photo essay than anything else.
justforfunhere 7y ago
Perhaps on mobile the experience is missing, but on my desktop the article is able to convey its message through pictures, sentences and short paragraphs.
- claudius 7y ago
  Also on a desktop, I had to "restart" reading everytime I scrolled through a whole page. Lost interest, which is quite a shame because the content seems actually interesting and some of the pictures are very pretty, but the reading experience is just abysmal.
pupdogg 7y ago
I believe more time was spent on formatting the page HTML/CSS than research on the subject matter itself.
- theon144 7y ago
  Considering how often NYTimes publishes essays in this format, I doubt it.
amelius 7y ago
Is there a name for this kind of experience, where scrolling triggers different kinds of animation?
- JustSomeNobody 7y ago
  I can think of a few choice words.
- citeguised 7y ago
  Scrollytelling
RandallBrown 7y ago
I do. The pictures are as much a part of the story as the words and this format lets the pictures be a part of the flow of reading. I think it's fantastic on mobile and desktop.
o10449366 7y ago
I did a web scraping project of all major news publications in the US and the NYT was by far the most difficult to parse because their article structures are extremely arbitrary and inconsistent.

Etheryte 7y ago

No, this is insane. Having to scroll a full screen for a single sentence — who thought this was a good idea?

fencepost 7y ago
It's the kind of thing the NYT has been doing since Snow Fall back in 2012 [0], to mixed feelings [1][2][3]. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/new-york-times-snow-fall-feature/320253/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/new-y... [2] https://www.fastcompany.com/3020689/the-new-york-times-fights-snow-fall-fatigue-with-more-snow-falls-and-it https://www.fastcompany.com/3020689/the-new-york-times-fight... [3] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/snow_fall_the_jockey_the_scourge_of_the_new_york_times_bell_and_whistle.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/...
scarejunba 7y ago
It's more a photo essay than anything else.

justforfunhere 7y ago

Perhaps on mobile the experience is missing, but on my desktop the article is able to convey its message through pictures, sentences and short paragraphs.

claudius 7y ago
Also on a desktop, I had to "restart" reading everytime I scrolled through a whole page. Lost interest, which is quite a shame because the content seems actually interesting and some of the pictures are very pretty, but the reading experience is just abysmal.

pupdogg 7y ago

I believe more time was spent on formatting the page HTML/CSS than research on the subject matter itself.

theon144 7y ago
Considering how often NYTimes publishes essays in this format, I doubt it.

amelius 7y ago

Is there a name for this kind of experience, where scrolling triggers different kinds of animation?

JustSomeNobody 7y ago
I can think of a few choice words.
citeguised 7y ago
Scrollytelling

RandallBrown 7y ago

I do. The pictures are as much a part of the story as the words and this format lets the pictures be a part of the flow of reading. I think it's fantastic on mobile and desktop.

o10449366 7y ago

I did a web scraping project of all major news publications in the US and the NYT was by far the most difficult to parse because their article structures are extremely arbitrary and inconsistent.