I've been a lurker for years at Slashdot and I always found the top headline stories fascinating, but this story made me sign up for an account immediately. I truly believe the internet is a better place because you exist. I love the spirit of Slashdot and the community around it: please keep true to your origins. So what made me sign up? Your mobile experience is awful. The performance is abysmal and the experience of dynamically loading stories is terrible. Your content is so fantastic that it gets marginalized by the bad mobile experience. If the budget allows, make a native mobile app for iOS (that fixes half of your performance issues right there). HTML5 is awful on mobile and the performance is awful. Specifically, the dynamic loading at the bottom of the page (i.e. infinite scroll) instead of pagination is painful on mobile. If you reload the page, you lose your place and have to dynamically reload the page totally. I could live with the small fix of pagination vs infinite scroll but then I think about offline content and performance and my yearning for a great native OS experience increases exponentially. Please do not ignore a great, native iOS experience.
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I've been a lurker for years at Slashdot and I always found the top headline stories fascinating, but this story made me sign up for an account immediately. I truly believe the internet is a better place because you exist. I love the spirit of Slashdot and the community around it: please keep true to your origins. So what made me sign up? Your mobile experience is awful. The performance is abysmal and the experience of dynamically loading stories is terrible. Your content is so fantastic that it gets marginalized by the bad mobile experience. If the budget allows, make a native mobile app for iOS (that fixes half of your performance issues right there). HTML5 is awful on mobile and the performance is awful. Specifically, the dynamic loading at the bottom of the page (i.e. infinite scroll) instead of pagination is painful on mobile. If you reload the page, you lose your place and have to dynamically reload the page totally. I could live with the small fix of pagination vs infinite scroll but then I think about offline content and performance and my yearning for a great native OS experience increases exponentially. Please do not ignore a great, native iOS experience.