I love the site, but fyi the teardowns are hard to work with on mobile (android chrome nexus5). It jumps around when I hit next, the icons are very small and require a zoom each time, touch gestures on the images do seemingly random things (sometimes zooms, sometimes scrolls, sometimes just jumps around, not sure why). I end up zooming in to touch a button, then when I tap it, it moves so the image takes up the screen and I can't scroll away from it to see the whole image or press the next button.
It's sad because the best times for me to look at it is on my phone and it's incredibly good content. It still seems okay on larger screens.
Please understand, I'm not dissing your site. I only give (hopefully useful) feedback because it's awesome.
It would be nice to list tear downs in the order in which they were reviewed - so I can read new ones quickly when I visit. Looks like current list is alphabetically sorted.
Going through top 4-5 pages, I noticed that slides after 80 randomly stop working (just blue background). Click next a few more times and 9X works again... (evernote did it for example)
I would love to know if and how any of the sites reviewed reacted?
None of these sites are in a vacuum. Would love to see a few of them get reviewed again in the future to see if they got better or worse. Slack, Basecamp, Gmail as examples of example of small, medium and large sites.
Very, very few of the product teams have reached out, interestingly enough. The ones that have have usually been along the lines of "yeah... we're working on that..."
As for re-reviewing them, thats definitely something I'd like to get to at some point. For now, though, I'm just a single person and can only review so many as it is!
Great stuff. Had fun reading a few of them. This is a fun project. The scarams is strong, pretty much align with me signing up with a few of these services at the beginning "wtf" moment.
One quick note: I noticed you are blurring sensitive info (for example in Hulu's case) and I recommend you don't do that. Just capture the screenshot before you enter the info. There are techniques to recover blurred text and your blurred text are not fully covered up so you may end up leaking the info.
I think this http://i.imgur.com/bgAJfwI.png is not something us iOS developers have any control over. It is a message that automatically will pop up upon starting the app, as opposed to the location message when we are asking for the location. (This one is saying the app might use it in the background).
I don't think this is the case. On iOS 8.0+ there's a method on `CLLocationManager` called `requestAlwaysPermission` that causes this popup to appear. I'm not positive about older iOS versions, but I thought they asked for permission when you started using `CLLocationManager`.
I think the best practice there is to "prime" the user before they see the iOS permission prompts. Something like "your phone will now ask for permission to access your location. We need this to do x,y,z.."
Sure, but my point is that for this very specific one (app may use location in the background) we are unable to do the priming as this one will be displayed by the app automatically (as opposed to most/all other such popups).
