On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com 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 Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l