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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Lots of websites reject email addresses at entirely valid domain names as invalid, too, such as any at some of the new TLDs like .email.

I'm a little more inclined to forgive that, but dashes in the domain have been valid for decades.

Since the start, even.

bell-atl.com is one of the oldest domains still in use, registered in 1986.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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For Canadians... I love this one: ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE: A1A1A1 Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can't reformat the input!

The U.K. government does this a ton with random reference numbers, even on their new (mostly good) sites and it drives me up the wall. Oftentimes they will give you these numbers with spaces but the form will not let you enter it with spaces (so it will fail if you copy-paste), or even worse the form will have a size limit so if you paste your 10 digit number with two spaces, the last two digits will be chopped off s…

Dvla... They ask you to enter the number on your form, without a prefix that is printed on it, and then to enter the payment amount that you think you owe them. No confirmation, no validation...

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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i did in 4:33 -- it was fun! https://i.imgur.com/RiHmKZM.png

You and I have very different definitions of fun! I got annoyed when it asked me for a profile picture and I just closed it.

Same! Closed it on profile picture. Then saw people mentioning "bow" in the comments, so I had to find out what it is. Worst possible way start a day.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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post #98

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I got 6 minutes and 7 seconds, half of which I think I spent trying to figure out the capcha. Also, if you got to the capcha and got it on the first try, go back and fail it a few times. They have some really clever ones.

I bailed on the captcha after 3 tries. It was infuriating, which is my experience with real captchas more often than I'd like to admit.

My favorite CAPTCHAs are when they don't state whether they're case-sensitive or not and it's hard to tell whether some characters are uppercase or lowercase.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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post #175

Actually, I have spend more time on some 'real' sign up pages... At least this time, I was constantly laughing about the somewhat absurd combinations. But I am missing some of the harder parts, like forms not showing because they are only loaded when you disable your ad-blocker or forms working in specific browser versions only. However, that would probably make it too hard/realistic. I love it! PS: Just to give an e…

That Vorwerk form works fine for me in Firefox (Nightly, with uBlock Origin).

Sounds interesting and indeed, when I take a fresh profile, the website loads just fine. So I suppose some one of my settings or some extension causes the issue.

Thanks for the hint.

Edit: I don't quite get it yet. Even starting my default profile in safe-mode (disables all extensions and themes), the page doesn't work.

The dev console shows this error:

  Failed to execute ‘postMessage’ on ‘DOMWindow’: The target origin provided (‘https://account.vorwerk.com’) does not match the recipient window’s origin (‘https://www.vorwerk.com’).
So I am pretty sure it must be some kind of configuration that is causing the issue, but so far I didn't find the related option in about:config

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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post #144

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I was dying with laughter. Love the helpful chat box which takes forever to drop, the helpful popup telling you to hurry up with an option to lock it where you'd expect an ok, and the expand button where you would expect the close button. But captchas were truly the icing on the cake. The only thing missing would have been a 'subscribe to our newsletter' feature 2 seconds after each page loads.

I almost died laughing, too When I slid the marker to about half the maximum length and the slider showed me 95 years old I cracked

It's future-proofing for the next 1000 years.
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