My newest object of rage on many websites: the subscribe to our newsletter pop up you now get whenever your mouse moves to close the tab
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I saw the bow thing in the comments too, but I can't understand what it is even though I completed the form!
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#193Doesn’t appear to work on my tablet… so goal 110% achieved! Edit: oh, heck, it does work—I completely missed the obvious misdirection!
i had to view source - for a second i thought this was a notpron-ish sort of game. Then i had to look again. There's no indication that you're hovering over something.
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#194Thanks, I hate it (or love all the dark patterns in one place :) ). On mobile I have tried to go through the first form and rage quit after 3 minutes. How do you close that hurry up modal? You could only expand or lock it, but did not see how to close it.
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Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
I ended up getting through by selecting them all.
I gave up after the 6th captcha or so. If the answer is to check them all then that's a bit dishonest, because some pictures technically don't apply. For example, glass windows are not "glasses".
"glasses" also means things that are glass. Like Pyrex and phone screens are both examples of glasses.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> Even on the left side of the @ a surprising number of scripts seem to fail on things that are perfectly acceptable characters. I've had an input require a minimum of 3 characters on the left side of the @ to register. My email was just "me@example.com" using my own domain name. A perfectly valid email address. I am also unable to sign up for Id.me for the IRS because it rejects both of my personal email addresses.…
Similar situation here. My address is s@myname.tld where is is the first letter of my name. So may rejects
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#197Yeye
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#198Thanks, I hate it (or love all the dark patterns in one place :) ). On mobile I have tried to go through the first form and rage quit after 3 minutes. How do you close that hurry up modal? You could only expand or lock it, but did not see how to close it.
Bottom left, click on: ©lose
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#199Well...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…
Wait you can advance beyond page 1?
Same question. My password wasn't unsafe. Abcdefghij1 seemed unsafe to me.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> Even on the left side of the @ a surprising number of scripts seem to fail on things that are perfectly acceptable characters. I've had an input require a minimum of 3 characters on the left side of the @ to register. My email was just "me@example.com" using my own domain name. A perfectly valid email address. I am also unable to sign up for Id.me for the IRS because it rejects both of my personal email addresses.…
>I hate with a fiery, burning passion every site that attempts to do any kind of email validation beyond simply sending me an email and letting me click a link to verify my email exists.
Yet at the same time, that's the one important validation that infuriatingly many sites don't do.
I once lost a protracted argument with the US Department of Education who absolutely refused to stop sending me private personal financial aid and academic details of a complete stranger who mistakenly gave them a common outlook.com email address that I have. As far as I can tell, in their view, since the user had put in a valid email address, that was their email address, and just because it was my email address didn't mean I was authorized to have it removed from the account. I continue to receive the person's private information from the state, colleges, and predatory businesses.
In fact, the number of mistaken accounts that get linked with that email address is fascinating. Paypal UK apparently does not send email validation requests before associating email addresses with accounts. Nordstrom does not. Internal divisions of the North Carolina Department of Insurance does not. UK Revenue and Customs apparently does not. Many of the larger organizations that, even more infuriatingly, always send emails from noreply addresses, and give no other way of contacting them other than logging into your account.