Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have horrible UI?

Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by danilocampos on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:51AM (#1782551)

TripAdvisor. Terrible UI in that everything was too green and too dense. It used to be especially hard to use on the iPhone.

If it were me, the mobile use case would be among the first I'd solve for a travel site, but it took them some time to get around to it.

Meanwhile, you'd load up Trip Advisor on Mobile Safari and get either browser pop-ups or worse, content-obscuring overlay ads you had to swipe around the screen to dismiss. (Best part: these popups were trying to sell me airline tickets for the town I was already in.)

It became so bad I just stopped using Trip Advisor, but I endured it for awhile every time I traveled. Now I use travel guides and other sources.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by acharkin on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @03:03AM (#1782574)

I think when you're talking about the mobile site you're probably referring to when they didn't have a mobile site yet. Over the year they've released an actual mobile website.

I do agree that the full site ads are pretty annoying, and the mobile site has its issues, but it's more usable than what it was before (which was the full site on mobile).

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Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by danilocampos on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @03:07AM (#1782584)

Yeah, I was using it on iPhone before they had a proper, mobile-optimized site.

And wow, just tried it out. Much easier to use than muddling through the full site before.

Maybe I'll give them a try again. I was turned off by their aggressive sales pitches.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the websites that you rely on but have h... by smackfu on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @09:47AM (#1783319)

Trip Advisor also has this weird thing where the reviews are in pages of three.

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