On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> From as I understand it the main problems with the sticky banners seem to > be due to several bugs related to it being sticky. Sticky banners do have a > habit of taking a life of their own and obscuring content. They cause me a > lot of pain as a developer and are hard to get right. The auto expansion on > hover is very confusing and does not meet my expectations as a user of how > it should behave (to the point I came close to raising a bug assuming it > was misbehaving). I also encountered a bug which stopped me from sharing > content [1]. > Just to repeat: The auto-expanding ones are dead. > > We have to work with facts though and if they perform better we should be > iterating on these banners and improving them so that we still get the > benefits of a shorter fundraiser and do not upset our users. Good work to > everyone involved that has made this fundraiser so successful with that > insight. > > I'd be interested to know whether a sticky banner that moves to the side of > the screen out of the way of content as the user scrolls was equally > effective at getting lots of donations and reducing annoyance that some > people have obviously been having. I look forward to seeing more > experimentation. > > [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42651 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Zack Exley Chief Revenue Officer Wikimedia Foundation 415 506 9225 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
