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       2024-07-28T17:03:26.326470Z
       
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       I know we all agree the modern, enshitified web is shit. But I just want to highlight some specific design features that regularly piss me reet off (aside from the really obvious stuff like subscription popups etc.)Things that expand when you hover over them, obscuring the other things you were looking at. So you have to find the 3px wide column where you can safely rest your cursor when browsing stuff. Fuck you Netflix.Interactable UI elements that only appear when you mouse over them. This one’s actually insane. Wanted to watch that video so you clicked on it, but no, a button appeared in that spot and now you’ve added it to your ‘queue’, whatever the fuck that is. Fuck you so much Youtube.Interactable UI elements that you actually want to use only appearing when you mouse over them. Like the ‘delete this video from my history’ button on youtube because, while every now and then yes I’ll spend 3 hours watching US local news bloopers, I don’t want news bloopers to be all you recommend for the next 18 months. And because the list of videos is a column, and when you delete one it leaves a little message behind, you can’t just keep your cursor in the same place and keep clicking, you have to find the invisible button every time. I fucking hate you Youtube.Videos thumbnails that autoplay when you hover them. Fine, if undesired, in itself, but that also counts as watching for watch history and recommendations. So, again, unless I want nothing but cooking videos for the next 2 years, I have to find the spot where I can safely hover my mouse while scrolling. Why is it always you, Youtube.Elements that load in asynchronously and push the thing you were about to click on down, so that you click on something else instead. Fuck you Steam.Loading ‘spinners’ in general. The fact that they display the exact same thing when ‘something is loading’ and also when ‘the site is completely fucked and nothing is happening’ makes them entirely worthless. Either do it properly (register when you’ve lost connection with the server/backend and tell me) or don’t bother.I get that big screens with actual pointing devices are secondary these days, everything’s designed principally for mobile. But it’s not like the vague, inconsistent touch interfaces are good either.And small personal sites virtually never do this shit. Only the big sites with the incredibly well paid UI/UX designers and consultants. It’s almost like they’re complete charlatans who have no fucking idea what they’re talking about.