TUAW = Slowest. Website. Ever.
May 12th, 2008 by FuzzTagged as: bad programming, slow website, the unofficial apple weblog, tuaw.
As a fan of all things Apple, I used to read The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), daily. Over the last year, though, they have changed a slew of different things on the website. They’ve hired at least one writer that hardly ever knows what she’s talking about, they have added more ads to the website that take just about forever to load, and now, whenever you click on a link, it makes you sit through an ad before transferring you to the next site.
The last part is by far the most annoying. Once you click on any link — even to post a comment, apparently — an ad pops up via CSS that covers the entire window. There’s a “skip ad” option at the top — but it doesn’t do ANYTHING.
Now, I’m not complaining that TUAW “sold out” or anything like that. They’re a business, and they deserve to make as much money as they can. One would think, however, that a tech-oriented website would do a better job with its coding and interface so that geeks like me don’t get annoyed and go elsewhere… and there are plenty of “elsewheres.”
Anyway, I am hereby removing TUAW from my bookmarks. Hopefully there are enough posts like this on the Internet that will get them to clean things up a bit.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:46 am
The site does move pretty slow…
I just tested the “SKIP THIS AD” linkages…
funny thing, it works.
…but I’m on my work PC.
uh..hello?