The new archive.org
Awww why... This looks incredibly cluttered. Infinite scrolling is a terrible idea in an _archive_. If you use the list view instead, you get a very hard to scan "3 narrow lines for 1" design.<p>The site is very broken if you don't have Javascript enabled. I am scared how CPU intense it would be on my mobile or cheap netbook. The details of collections don't even display any items.<p>Where is the list of files inside an item? Previously there was a nice table. Now everything seems to focus on images instead. IA hosts a lot of things that are not visual. Music, texts, data. Those seem like second row citizens now. The cover of an album tells me .. nothing about the music itself.<p>For an archive, I think this is a rather bad interface. The technical implementation seems very un-archivey and more suited to a "dumb user" discovery interface built upon an existing well-presented archive. :(<p>PS: The categories and tags on the side are a nice addition.<p>If someone from IA reads this, I think at least <a href="https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php</a> is not using output buffering which might make user's performance much better.<p>Overall the site is very very slow.<p>edit: Some comparison images.<p>Old: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/gJXgJhI.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/gJXgJhI.png</a><p>New default: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/JOEoAiu.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/JOEoAiu.png</a><p>New list: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/m2d1Gf4.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/m2d1Gf4.png</a><p>Old: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/X7e2s5T.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/X7e2s5T.png</a><p>New: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/9HsrQO1.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/9HsrQO1.png</a>