On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just in time! > > http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/death-to-app-install-interstitials/ > > > Interstitials are full-page ads where you have to click a link to get to > the actual content. These are normal banners. > More importantly, as you can see in the Phabricator task, they are an > experiment to measure if it is possible to make more people use the app. > Experiments are good. For one thing, they can turn out negative, in which > case we will have been spared a philosophical debate about openness. > I don't think anyone would consider Wikimedia's donation banners "normal". On mobile they take up the entire screen, which makes them as bad as interstitials. On the desktop they obscure the vast majority of the site, even on relatively large screens. They are a frequent cause for complaint on social media when they run. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
