# Now THIS is a busy website! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854 "2009-04-12T16:30:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/1 "2009-04-12T16:30:53Z")
[This is freakin’ insane.](http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/) You could spend all day playing with this. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/2 "2009-04-12T16:33:07Z")
BTW, be sure to press the big red “push now!” button. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/3 "2009-04-12T16:33:18Z")
Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/4 "2009-04-12T16:37:11Z")
:: must take extra Ritalin :: ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/5 "2009-04-12T19:02:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > BTW, be sure to press the big red “push now!” button. I never even got to the point where the red button appeared. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/6 "2009-04-12T19:17:00Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I never even got to the point where the red button appeared. You are only seeing part of the page-move your cursor all the way to the right to see more, or all the way to the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/7 "2009-04-12T19:18:52Z")
I was the 65,045th person to push it. 😛 That’s a weird site. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/8 "2009-04-13T00:25:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You are only seeing part of the page-move your cursor all the way to the right to see more, or all the way to the bottom. I think the problem was that the website designers forgot rule #1: don’t make a webpage that will crash people’s browsers. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/9 "2009-04-13T02:02:12Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I think the problem was that the website designers forgot rule #1: don’t make a webpage that will crash people’s browsers. Try another browser? Works just fine on Chrome, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/10 "2009-04-13T02:18:25Z")
Habitable Planets: 1 ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/11 "2009-04-13T03:11:50Z")
Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/12 "2009-04-13T16:40:27Z")
Cool… \ Eli ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/13 "2009-04-13T17:57:09Z")
Good website!!! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/14 "2009-04-13T18:20:34Z")
Desperate times requires desperate measures … Sprint continues to shed customers at an alarming rate. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/15 "2009-04-13T18:39:19Z")
I like the cuckoo bird. Still not going back to Sprint. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/16 "2009-04-13T18:40:35Z")
\ I’m still a bit nauseous. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/17 "2009-04-13T19:10:47Z")
Holy crap only 256 shopping days until christmas! I need to start shopping. “Your body just made 50 million new cells.” Wow, I didn’t know I was such a busy body. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/18 "2009-04-13T19:13:34Z")
wow– we have a winner!..Will somebody please notify [www.websitesthatsuck.com](http://www.websitesthatsuck.com) ? (yes, the link is legit…it’s a good, educational site that explains how to design a website without making all the mistakes like the OP’s link ) ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/19 "2009-04-13T21:21:34Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > wow– > we have a winner!..Will somebody please notify [www.websitesthatsuck.com](http://www.websitesthatsuck.com) ? > > (yes, the link is legit…it’s a good, educational site that explains how to design a website without making all the mistakes like the OP’s link ) They already have it, link 5 on the navigation page: > **[Worst Web Sites of 2008 to Navigate from Web Pages That Suck](http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-web-sites-of-2008-navigation.html)** > > Worst Website Navigation Examples #1-5 compiled by Web Pages That Suck ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854/20 "2009-04-14T13:18:32Z")
You can see it all at once at 1600x1024, still gives you a headache though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-this-is-a-busy-website/492854.md?page=2)