Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Don't like self reloading websites

I don't like websites that reload automatically. Email and sport scores are fine but not other websites. The one that i hate the most is the washingtonpost.com. It use to reloads periodically possibly every 30 minutes or so. My dislike of this was minimal because it wasn't that often. However they have recently changed this and its now reloading every few minutes. It's becoming very frustrating for several reasons. Firstly, the page gets changed around and links to stories move. I read the website in three stages. I read the most important stories first: reliable source, john Kelly, national coverage, major stories. I usually read these before i leave the house in the morning for school. The second stage is stories that i find interesting such as profiles, op-eds, style stories. I read them when i have the time. The last stage is when I'm really bored and i read the business stories or a story about a church that burnt down in 1868 and rebuilt again and then it burnt down again and now they are rebuilding. When i read the front page, i basically scan the entire page and put each story in a stage. When the post reloads it shots all my scanning to hell. Links get moved and it just get chaotic.
My second dislike of reloading is it reloads usually when I'm reading the page. So I'm scanning the front page and it reloads and I'm force to wait like 1 second and I'm at the top of the page again. I was watching a video on the front page and it reloaded like 2 minutes in to it. Not only did i have to see the commercial they show before the video but i had to wait for the movie to load. Its a frustrating waste of my time.
I had a third reason but I've forgotten it. So I don't like reloading website especially the post.

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