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  • What are some aspects of UI/UX seen in modern websites that really grind your gears?

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  • Popups demanding I join newsletters, engage in chats, review your site, etc. Make that stuff available on the menu and I'll have no problem with it. Shove it in my face as I'm loading your site and I'll likely just close it straight away. Some pages are just one popup after another with absolutely no thought given to the UX. The users want your content, not your popups. And what if after using your site for a bit I actually do decide to join the newsletter when the only reference to it is the popup that I already dismissed?

    Divs sliding into position as I scroll through the page annoy me intensely. When I see a page doing that I'll autorepeat PageDown to the end, then go back to the top. What is even more irritating and page-close-worthy is when those divs still insist on sliding into position after they've already done that.

    Sound effects. Just NO NO NO NO NO. Sound effects are not the answer. Sound effects are the question. The answer is NO. I can see the point of sound effects in a chat, IF AND ONLY IF YOUR PAGE DOESN'T CURRENTLY HAVE FOCUS. But please don't bleep ping bing and bong every time someone presses Return. And test your sfx on decent speaker systems, not all of use have tinny 1" speakers; I have a decent hifi woofer and some of those bass drops really shake my room and I can only imagine that they were tested on crappy little speakers.

    Spamming my screen with ads, obviously. You can have a single static ad that doesn't bounce around the screen, demand I punch some stupid monkey, vibrate, flash etc. And of course that ad has to be legit. There are still far too many ads that lead to scams and other malware. Stack Exchange is one of the few pages that get on my whitelist because of their advertising policy.

    Give new fads time to settle down before you spam your site with the latest whizz bang animation. Yeah sorry that means you aren't going to be able to play with all the new toys. But your users will thank you. If you must use the latest CSS tricks then use it judiciously on one or two gadgets instead of applying it to "*".

    And of course as you've already alluded make sure you use standard user interface gadgets correctly. Checkboxes are checkboxes and radiobuttons are radiobuttons. They are not the same as each other. They are also on/off. If you need tristate or more then you need something else.

  • (How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry)

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  • You'd like the IOCCC.

  • (How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry)

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  • I've ridden a motorbike in a T-shirt and kilt before. That's ... fun ...

  • Bug priority

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  • No, the bug didn't have to get 500,000 upvotes in one week before they started looking at it.

  • For the glory of the Empire!

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  • Earlier this evening I expelled warm wet air through a curved metal tube with holes in it, for the glory of the Empire! Kaplah!

  • What is your personal most hated company or corporation?

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  • Anything from the USA, where enshittification is practically guaranteed. LiNe MuSt Go uP!!1!! Even more so under the current admin. Fart wants to isolate the USM (orons)? Fine with me, there are plenty of alternatives.

    I'm not deyanked yet but it's in progress.

  • Do you know anyone in real life that uses Lemmy?

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  • Only the other bots in the farm I inhabit.

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google

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  • But why would I want a bunch of ads and SEO shit that doesn't answer my question?

  • Zachary Levi pleas to Musk: People who voted for Trump are losing their jobs

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  • I'd dig out the Clarkson "Oh no. Anyway" meme if I could be bothered.

  • Be the change you want to see in Lemmy

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  • Oh, I can do project management too!

    Your next task is waves hands around ... the thing ... waves hands around some more ... like the other thing ... but different.

  • Be the change you want to see in Lemmy

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  • "Which server do I join?" seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people.

    The "Browse servers" page does say at the top "You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn't matter which one you choose", but on showing this page you immediately scroll that message off the screen. Maybe if you kept that bit visible it would help.

    Also I think comparing it with email servers might be helpful. People already know they can email anyone from any email server, and that signing up to, say, Posteo, doesn't mean you can only email other Posteo users.

  • Hey UK and France... Canada here. Just wondering... You still have our backs eh?

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  • Inasmuch as we can, yeah. None of our planning so far has allowed for the possibility of Moronica turning into a loose cannon and going around threatening all its friends and allies. As with Ukraine, if Moronica decides you're fucked, you're fucked, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.

  • In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico

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  • For the next four years I also propose renaming en_us to an-us.

  • Since America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)

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  • The United States of Moronica

    no offense to actual morons intended

  • Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

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  • Have you tried Ctrl-Tabbing through all open tabs, to load them all in? It's be interesting to see how much memory it uses then.

  • Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

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  • 5G for HermitCraft S9, 10G for Enigmatica 6 Expert (looking at Working Set in Resource Monitor). I've rebuilt impulseSV's iBuy as an autocrafting tower in my E6E world, and I needed more detail than I could glean from the videos.

    Firefox is a bit more tricky to work out because it's split over multiple processes but if I kill it while watching Resource Monitor the Available Memory jumps by about 9G, with 56 tabs open.

  • Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

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  • Have you ever had Windows break so badly that you had to burn an install disk...

    As a programmer, yes under Windows 3.0 I could crash the computer so hard that the only way to recover was to reformat the hard disk. It got progressively better in later versions and everything from Windows 2000 has been virtually uncrashable.

    My most recent hard crash was when I had a VM, two Minecraft instances and Firefox all open at the same time and Windows ran out of memory (so I upgraded from 32GB to 64GB). It does make me wonder why some of that didn't get swapped out though.

  • Does anyone else get so tired and depressed from saying you're good when people ask how you are?

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  • It helps to understand what is being communicated here. It's not a genuine request for your health status, it's a friendly greeting. The last thing anyone wants in response to "how are you" is a list of everything that's wrong with you. If you struggle to cope with replying "fine" or equivalent, refuse to answer the question and respond instead with something like "hi/hello!". The non-sequitur will jar them for a moment and hopefully they'll learn not to ask dumb questions.

  • Why don't they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

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  • Why wouldn't he? You buy some cheap tat from his tat shop, it comes from China, Bozo collects the tariff on the govt's behalf and deducts a "processing" fee and hey presto! Bozo gets more billions!