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Ask HN: What elements of websites annoy you the most?

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Re: Ask HN: What elements of websites annoy you the most?

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Post by jamieweb »

- Blank, white page when JavaScript is disabled

- Basic functionality broken when JavaScript is disabled

- Unnecessary use of iFrames and other subdocument elements

- Loading megabytes of libraries and scripts for a basic menu animation that could be done with CSS3 or plain JS

- Taking me off-domain to log in - the logged in area should be dashboard.example.tld, not exampledashboard.tld (mainly banking sites do this)

- Requiring logging in after visiting an email address verification link

- Sending email verification links, I would really prefer verification codes that don't require visiting a link

- HTTPS mixed content errors

- Messy HTTP response headers, such as invalid values, duplicate headers, or default values for everything

- No easy way to find a contact method for the security team, such as the RFC2142 security@ email address, or security.txt

Re: Ask HN: What elements of websites annoy you the most?

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Post by omosubi »

Prompts for newsletter, login (ala glass door), notifications, etc

Banking sites that still use verification questions

Landing pages that don't take you to the actual content (such as if you type drive.google.com into the url bar when you're logged in to Google and have been going to the same site for a while)

Lots of Tracking

Re: Ask HN: What elements of websites annoy you the most?

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Post by jamieweb »

dmckeon wrote: post #7

Distractions. I am text-oriented and easily distracted, so any auto-playing animation, video, audio, pop-out, or basically anything that moves on the display and causes distraction annoys me. Static images and graphics are fine, and user-triggered movement is fine, but the all-dancing, all-singing, in-your-face sites can please take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut. TBH, I even find distracting text annoying - Sta…

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Re: Ask HN: What elements of websites annoy you the most?

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Post by dmckeon »

jamieweb wrote: post #18
dmckeon wrote: post #7

Distractions. I am text-oriented and easily distracted, so any auto-playing animation, video, audio, pop-out, or basically anything that moves on the display and causes distraction annoys me. Static images and graphics are fine, and user-triggered movement is fine, but the all-dancing, all-singing, in-your-face sites can please take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut. TBH, I even find distracting text annoying - Sta…

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