When I first load the page I have to wait what is probably only 1/2 a second or so, but feels like an age, for the initial load to fade up. (I've timed it ... from hitting Ctrl-F5 to full text on the first page takes 3 seconds. It looks like the first 2 seconds are load, the last second or so is the "Fade Up".)
The last thing on that page "above the fold" is the quotation:
"There's no love in a carbon atom, No hurricane in a water molecule, No financial collapse in a dollar bill." – Peter Dodds
I don't see the connection with a page about complexity.
So I "PgDn" and the screen is initially empty, then text "swooshes" in from the right. I timed it, from the time I hit "PgDn" to the time the text stops moving is over a second. It feels an absolute age and breaks any flow of reading the content.
It's easy to miss that there's an animation to trigger ... initially I missed it completely. When I find it I see it says:
Jujujajaki networks: A dynamic network model that was designed to capture the emergence of community structures, heterogeneities and clusters that are frequently observed in social networks.
I watch for over a minute and think: "Does it show that?" I can't see it. It's pretty, but it imparts no information to me at all.
Again I hit "PgDn". Again the text "swooshes" in, this time from the left. And again, over a second to stop moving. It's taking an age, and already I'm fed up with the whole experience. Add that to the poor contrast and I'm not inclined to bother reading further. I'm starting to feel that the authors are more interested in showing their leet presentation skilz than they are in presenting the information itself.
And so on.
Does that help you understand my experience and why I found it frustrating?
But their existence is beautifully hidden by the bloody annoying, horribly slow "Swoosh! Swoosh" of the animation.
It's a perfect example of having potentially fantastic content, then making it really, really hard to notice.
Urgh.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26048154