Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country

Re:Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless peopl... by ObsoleteNerd on Sunday November 04, 2018 @05:57PM (#18378509)

While they should definitely consider serving up a more static version for mobile (couldn't scroll on Firefox Android), the experience of reading this article on my desktop was truly awesome.

I absolutely loved the graphics, cinemagraphs, and entire experience, and really do think it added immensely to the story itself.

Is there a name for this style of article? Do they use some existing JS library or is it all hand crafted?

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Re:Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless peopl... by nickevershed on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:21PM (#18379646)

We call them "big scrollies" in my newsroom, I have also seen the format referred to as "Scrollytelling". There are a few libraries such as graph-scroll and scrolllama which work well with d3 specifically, but otherwise you can just make your own.

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Re:Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless peopl... by alexbecker on Sunday November 04, 2018 @06:20PM (#18378603)

Scrolling even on desktop was janky for me, and it was hard to center the paragraphs that were supposed to overlay the maps.

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Re:Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless peopl... by ObsoleteNerd on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:07PM (#18379053)

Goes to show just how broken the web is lately. I quit web dev after 20 years in the industry because it was frustrating me so much. I pretty much exclusively deal with hardware now and love that if I solder everything right, and put everything where it's supposed to, it works, and anything wrong with it is usually my fault or a broken component.

Worked perfectly on Firefox Developer Edition / Windows 10. Was smooth and I didn't notice a single issue, FWIW.

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