Tony wrote:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>> On 28 Feb, 00:11, Tony <nos...@example.com> wrote:
>>> Andy Dingley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Flash intros are bad, no matter what the content.
>>> Why?
>>
>> Because you're making the user sit through an intro when they could be
>> sitting through your content instead.
>
> If the target market LIKES the intro, then how is it bad?
>
>> Because this isn't TV, and certainly not a long movie. We don't
>> consume the web in a serial manner as we used to with broadcast media,
>> we pick and choose what we want, and exactly how much of what we want.
>
> Who is "We"? A specific group of expert users like this group? All users
> in general? A specific target audience?
>

It gets very boring to watch the same flash intro time after time.
Soon, people stop watching - because they stop visiting the site.

>> In particular, feeding the same intro to repeat visitors is especially
>> annoying. They might tolerate this once a week on a TV series, but not
>> every time they refresh a page (and it's hard to reliably avoid that).
>
> You state a position: "feeding the same intro to repeat visitors is
> especially annoying.". While I would tend to agree with you, do you have
> any specific evidence to back up this claim? And more particularly, can
> you say that claim is true for all target demographics?
>

How many times do you watch reruns of the same TV shows?

>> It's an impatient audience out there these days! They don't want to
>> sit through an intro, and if you force then to do so, you're likely to
>> find them going somewhere else altogether.
>
> Also, your original statement didn't say anything about forced Flash
> intros. Many of them have a "skip" link. And some sites even have ways
> to bypass them.
>

Some do.

> You made a broad statement: "Flash intros are bad, no matter what the
> content". Fair enough - you feel that Flash intros are bad. But are they
> ALWAYS bad? I think it's rather small-minded and quite limiting to say
> "yes" to that - what's good for one target audience may or may not be
> good for others. That's something I often see missing from some of the
> discussions here.
>

Exactly. They are ALWAYS bad. And I think it's rather small-minded and
quite limiting to force flash intros on users.

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