Took me a really long time to realize that I should scroll. Because why would I? There is absolutely no indication that there is anything to scroll to.

I clicked on the two avatars but that didn't get me very far and the only thing left to click was "by alvin chang" but that was about as fruitful as I imagined it would be.

So I assumed it was a podcast, re-checking that I had audio on etc. But nope, so I checked another browser. Same there... Then I read HN comments, ah ... Great design? ...

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n2d4 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Same here — once you get the scrolling part it's pretty great, but like you I was stuck at the top for a while. A downwards-pointing arrow on the hero would help a lot here.

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arccy 7 days ago | parent [-]

If you use a sane browser, the page will have a scrollbar indicator on the right?

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JoblessWonder 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Firefox in Windows has the tiniest little scrollbar indicator in the top right that honestly blends in very well with the background. I didn't realize I needed to scroll until I came to the comments. I clicked around... got some interaction... but basically left the first time being very confused.

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tidbeck 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have (Firefox on macOS), still easy to miss.

	▲	badc0ffee 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have Firefox on macOS as well, but I don't see a scroll bar until I start scrolling. Could be because I'm using an external trackpad, and not a mouse.
	▲	arccy 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		On chrome the scroll bar is very visible. I don't think you can blame Chrome for this... this is just bad design by Firefox.

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federiconafria 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was going to say that somehow I knew I had to scroll the first time I entered. But I went back after reading your comment and I have no idea how did I find out the first time, there is no indication that there is content bellow.

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tasuki 7 days ago | parent [-]

Same for me. It was immediately obvious I should scroll, but I don't know why.

	▲	allenu 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		I was viewing on desktop and the blank space all around made it immediately feel like an article that required a scroll to view the content below the fold. Seeing the timestamps change as I scrolled and seeing a progress "bar" update within the speech balloons during the dialogs made it more obvious I just had to scroll to see the content change. I do think the progress bar color is low contrast enough that some might not see it and not realize they have to scroll to cause the dialog to update, though.

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np1810 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Took me a really long time to realize that I should scroll. Because why would I? There is absolutely no indication that there is anything to scroll to.

> I clicked on the two avatars but that didn't get me very far and the only thing left to click was "by alvin chang" but that was about as fruitful as I imagined it would be.

Thank god, I wasn’t the only one, just posted a similar comment here.