I genuinely gave up after two unsuccessful clicks. It probably says something about my personality or current state of mind.
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
My email address has a dash in the domain and it's remarkable how many sites (and big ones, too!) reject it as an invalid domain. Discover.com, for example, rejected it when I did a card application, but disabling JavaScript let it go through on the server-side validation. Bloody weird.
Really the entire idea of client/server-side email "validation" kind of seems like an ancient, cockroach-like anti-pattern that is impossible to stamp out. Like, what is the problem they're even solving? One validates email addresses by sending an email with a token the user then acts on. There are useful things to do with emails, like checking against already registered ones (including any blacklists), but I can't t…
> what is the problem they're even solving?
The problem they're solving is that a lot of people just enter their email wrong and then wonder why they didn't get the signup email.
> Like if someone tries to register an already registered email, send an email about it don't leak that it's registered.
This is something that's cargo-culted far too often. Maybe for some services it's worth keeping secret which emails are signed up, but for most it isn't.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#103Only thing missing is deleting everything you entered into the entire form any time there is an error message
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#104Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…
I got it in 3:49!
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#105I can’t remember the last time I was this angry
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#106Love all the little details. Some favorites: * Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match * Tiny flag icons to select country * The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad) * number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time * utterly ambiguous…
My current real world frustration: a date picker for birthdate which starts in current year and I believe the native selector in Android/Chrome doesn't let you select a year. You hit left arrow to go down month by month. Am I crazy and did I miss this? Ive seen it a few times now!
I wonder if there's a way to get the datepicker to open on a specific date... find the median age of all users and open the datepicker in that year haha
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#107I gave up on "password" field - can't figure out how to make it "unsafe" for the life of me OTL
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#108I remember when was the most annoying thing about HTML. Ooof.
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#109i could not figure out the captcha, did not complete.