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The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Post by temporallobe »

JoeyBananas wrote: post #10
axbytg wrote: post #5

Reddit is full of these patterns in order to drive users from mobile web to app. Reddit mobile web really sets the bar for user-hostile UI in my opinion.

Microsoft Windows is even worse. Constant disruptive updates, forcing you to make an account during install, ads in the start menu, that creepy "Cortana" process that you can't kill...

These are the primary reasons I moved off Windows and onto a combination of macOS and *nix. Plus, macbooks have native Thunderbolt 3 support, which is essential for near-zero latency audio production.

Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Post by bserge »

klyrs wrote: post #13

I love instagram. It's the best social media site. Last time I checked, I couldn't even make an account from my desktop computer. I'm not gonna even try to install their app on my G-free phone. When a friends sends me a link to Instagram, I know that I don't need to click on it -- the thumbnail contains all the information that I'd ever see without creating an account. When news articles consist of a bunch of embedde…

Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok. Just... No. Funny enough, I was a big Imgur user until one day I somehow realized I'm wasting my life on the dumbest shit in the dumbest format possible.

Reddit on the other hand, is trying hard to push me away and I thank them for it, but a lot of info you can only find there. Like real measurements of graphics cards and just real information from real people.

Kind of sad, but Reddit has attracted all the people who used to frequent niche forms in one place.

Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Post by Spivak »

colordrops wrote: post #75
Spivak wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait wha? What’s the flow here to produce this? I open IG, tap into the search tab, tap the search bar, keyboard appears, type in user, tap result. Do you want tapping into the search tab to autofocus the search bar and open the keyboard. I can totally understand that but IG’s search tab is more a discovery thing now. Which like evil’s of social media aside was a sorely needed feature since finding people to follow h…

Are you on Android? You have to tap search icon, then the search bar, after which the keyboard pops up then disappears, then tap the search bar again.

I’m on iOS so I don’t think that’s supposed to happen. Definitely wouldn’t be the first time Android gets the shaft in terms of app quality from large companies. Looking at you Google whose iOS apps are better than their Android apps for some reason.

Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Post by mercury_craze »

Facebook was doing this for a while on business pages, but it looks like they've backed out of it now. Around 2 years ago you were only permitted to see content 'above the fold'. Scroll down to the second page of content and you saw an undismissable modal covering the entire page. Happily(!) you now have the option to dismiss the modal and continue scrolling, but the modal is shown for every new business page you visit.

Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Post by sixothree »

ssully wrote: post #43
JoeyBananas wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft Windows is even worse. Constant disruptive updates, forcing you to make an account during install, ads in the start menu, that creepy "Cortana" process that you can't kill...

I disagree. Reddit is worse because if you don't have an account, you are constantly pushed to make one, or get pop-ups to download the ad. They also seem to limit functionality, like seeing all comments, unless you have an account. The Windows installation process is annoying for sure, but once you get through it, you are able to disable or rework everything you mentioned. iOS honestly has everything you mentioned a…

Additionally, the experience of using reddit is very different with an account versus without. The same argument cannot be made for Windows 10.

Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Post by xqw »

> but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page

Try this custom userstyle in a custom CSS plugin (like Stylus):

    body,
    html,
    html body,
    .overflow-hidden {
        overflow: auto !important;
    }
...I leave this on all the time, and use uBlock to snipe the SIGN UP NOW popovers, works wonders.

Re: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

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Post by bserge »

jandrese wrote: post #70
axbytg wrote: post #5

Reddit is full of these patterns in order to drive users from mobile web to app. Reddit mobile web really sets the bar for user-hostile UI in my opinion.

Reddit's new UI is still hilariously terrible. The day they remove old.reddit.com is the day I stop using the site. Who the hell thinks what I want when I click on an article is to bring it into a related article feed with 1.5 comments showing? If I accidentally click outside of the article area the whole thing vanishes with no way to get back where I was. I had thought these issues would be obvious and they would cl…

The back button is broken, too. Was it that hard to bring you back to the comment you were reading when you clicked the link? Guess so.
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