Commerce sites displaying prices in $ amounts but not showing if it's US$ or another currency. Inexcusable for big sites that know the users location, delivery address, card location etc. Looking at you Amazon.
Ask HN: What is a techpet peeve of yours that no one else mentions?
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Re: Ask HN: What is a techpet peeve of yours that no one else mentions?
#12Username/password. Just let me put in a key and be done.
Re: Ask HN: What is a techpet peeve of yours that no one else mentions?
#13Twitter in general. I never really liked it due to the 250 character limit (used to be 150) and people insisting that it is possible to have a meaningful discussion within this limitation. Sure, you can split your post into multiple messages but the design of the site encourages short responses so no real discussion will be happening.
A bit of related trivia: Twitter was a service that only worked over SMS in the early days. The character limit was set at 140 since that was a length that could safely work with all carriers, as well as leave enough room for your Twitter handle.
The shortness of messages was also a perfect fit for what early users of Twitter were doing: answering the question of "What are you doing?"
There was a trend when Twitter began of adjusting your AIM "status" message to reflect what you were doing, or what music you were listening too (there were scripts that automated this for you).
As an early adopter of Twitter, I can recall that people started using it in similar ways. One of the first Twitter messages that I received in the early days was from @ev saying "Peeing."
I think it's fair to say things haven't changed much.
Re: Ask HN: What is a techpet peeve of yours that no one else mentions?
#14Sites assuming that anyone browsing on mobile is just passively browsing, and hiding any of the features that make them easier to navigate on desktop.
For instance, so many wikis remove things like category boxes and navigation bars on mobile, making it a chore to browse different related articles. They also seem to like hiding stuff like 'recent changes' too, as if knowing what changed since your last visit is something only desktop users have the need for.
And god help you if you want to actually contribute to many sites on mobile. That seems to be a complete afterthought for anything without a mobile app (and arguably a lot of those that do have one).
Re: Ask HN: What is a techpet peeve of yours that no one else mentions?
#15- Modal popups
- Unnecessary animations
- Cookie banners (someone fix this)
- cluttered websites
- back button hijacking