Can I ask if you would have taken the quiz at the end if I had been upfront in saying it was a quiz? Was there anything I could have done to make you spend more time reading the issue? (this thing has been my baby for the last week and I'm totally excited to make fixes and take suggestions)
I can't resist a #quiz, but I think it's probably better to leave it an unspecified surprise. Maybe the next issue will have some other treat at the end, like pointing out something hidden in the magazine that most readers wouldn't notice. If I had a better attention span, I would have read another chapter of The Count of Monte Cristo instead of a random zine, so I enjoyed the 15 minutes of distraction the.lit.cat provided. The vertical scroll bar was good too. It looked like I was making progress toward the finish, then more content dynamically loaded and I had more scrolling to do. This issue was the majority of the poetry and fiction by unfamiliar writers that I have read all month.
weewooweewoo I hated this. Dynamic scrolling needs to go. Don't encourage it. Then again I failed to even notice the quiz, so I'm probably not the right person to give feedback. EDIT: 71 percent, a degree-earning score. I am David Foster Wallace. I did not really read the issue (yet). I am a fan of quizzes with odd numbers of questions which result in unusual scores.The vertical scroll bar was good too. It looked like I was making progress toward the finish, then more content dynamically loaded and I had more scrolling to do.
I was DFW too! Maybe we are all DFW. Why not? I can see the mendacious scrollbar both ways. If it really showed me how far I fad to go, I might have given up at the start. But it's mendacious. As a user interface design, I don't hate the "infinite scroll" pattern, it seems a little advantageous compared to paging. Probably this is far too much analysis for a zine that gives an estimate down to the second of time to consume. I plead irrationally, as one who dreads starting a thousand-page novel, then 400 pages in regrets that it's almost done.
Uh, I guess the whole thing is pretty mendacious. Everyone is DFW, haha. On the dynamic scrolling thing- the big reason it is there is for wasoxygen said, it's a lot more intimidating if you know how much you have to scroll to finish the whole issue. At the same time, I am very much against infinite scrolling, and wanted this to be an antidote to infinite-scrolling, which is why I have the amount of time for each issue at the very beginning. I'm totally glad that I got both of you to read some unknown writers! That's means I'm doing something right.