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Usability Nightmares, Part 4

I still don't quite know what I should think of this:

A really weird hint for entering comments
First I only read the part that you should write your comments within 15 minutes (or paste them). That alone is sick enough. And yes, there is a  in the top of the page. I just wonder why. The site isn't as comment-heavy as Slashdot, Heise or other large IT sites so the benefit of seeing the latest comments (well, the ones that are at most 15 minutes old) isn't really that great and besides, that could be done without forcing the user into something he wouldn't need to do (Hint: there is this wonderfully hyped Web 2.0 thing called AJAX).

And the second part of the commenting hint is just downright ridiculous. Something on their side is seriously broken if they need that kind of hint. After digging a bit in the source code of that page it turns out that their comment-system is entirely Javascript, at least the validation part. The form points into void and the only thing that will submit something is probably the JS function AddComments() that is called on submit on that form. However, I lacked the motivation to actually look through that, given that I know nearly no Javascript.

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