I completely agree! One of the worst reading experiences I've ever encountered.

Awesome, thanks!

Yup, the paywall has gotten stronger and will probably be getting even more upgrades. And they know all the tricks.

Once you start paying, you realize how much great content is on there. Well worth it.

I'm from Europe. I'm not sure what's behind the paywall because I think I see all the content. I never seem to go back to the site. What makes it great content to you ?

I don't agree with those reasons at all. It looks like they tried to build their mobile site by just downsizing their desktop site instead of going mobile-first. And yea, not everything is easy and stuff may take a bit longer, but next time and the time again you get faster and faster.

Doesn't seem like that innovative of a company with a post like that.

Responsive design isn't an "innovation". It's a presentation shortcut. 1 data source, multiple views. Considering how little of my career the idea of responsive design has even been around let along appropriate (say the 6 months to a year out of 15) I can't actually believe that the comments here so far seem to assume that responsive is the defacto approach when it's solving a problem that doesn't really exist by using a solution more complex than is needed.

With only 2% of visitors coming from mobile, why would they go mobile-first?

Sure, the design of the site might limit mobile use a bit, but it probably wouldn't cause that big of a disparity in and of itself.

Also, the post mentioned good reasons to go responsive or mobile-first and said that the benefits to a fixed layout for most pages outweighed the drawbacks for them. They have even optimized some pages for mobile where it makes sense to them.

Doing what is right for your business is more important than jumping on the newest techniques solely to be seen as "innovative".

That is a great point. It would almost be fun to learn in this type of way.

Nice bucket, I'm a big fan of flat design. The guys from layervault put up a good post recently http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/32267022219/flat-interface...

Very nice, will have to check this out for the project I'm starting today. Sick of using Bootstrap to demo when I usually change everything. Just need some boilerplate instead.

I just got it, but would never actually pay to read an interview.

Everyone in digital media trying to have you click an ad is practically a "growth hacker"

I just used it a bit, and didn't really enjoy it too much. It's more of a way to test whether or not you know them, rather than teach you the shortcuts. I'm in the process of trying to learn more shortcuts, so I thought this would've been helpful, but there's a lot more refinement needed.