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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

#21

Post by coldpie » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:27 PM UTC

alfonsodev wrote: post #9

> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

> implement a text editor using Draft.js

on'tD do this.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by smcl » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:27 PM UTC

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

#23

Post by bitwize » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:28 PM UTC

There's a reason why I call it "Fumblr". I've never experienced a hotkey conflict like this yet, but it's just so full of UI fails that the experience of posting something is rough and cumbersome, even before you get to the comically catastrophic fails like this.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by shantnutiwari » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:31 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

yeah, and bonus points if then you then spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what happened, and how to undo it

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by httpsterio » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

nicoburns wrote: post #19

I hope someone reimplements tumblr as an open platform at some point. They got a lot right from a UX perspective.

It's literally the UX that is wrong. Community and their content is why it's still a thing.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by notacoward » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

When this was happening to me it turned out to be bad interaction with '@' followed by a punctuation mark. I can reproduce it at will right now. Something to do with name auto-completion, but once I knew how to avoid it I stopped debugging their code for free.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by keeganjw » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:37 PM UTC

This reminds me of when the spacebar stopped working in the YouTube search box. I thought my keyboard broke for a sec until I realized it worked just fine everywhere but YouTube. Then later I found out it wasn't just me...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/10/22323716/youtube-search-b...

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by drcongo » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:39 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

And most of them don't check to see if the user is also holding down a modifier key, thereby overriding your system keyboard shortcuts. Yes. I _am_ looking at you Google Spreadsheets.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:49 PM UTC

asplake wrote: post #7

> tumblr is fractally broken. it's not wrong in any specific way, it's wrong at every possible scale.

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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

#30

Post by Steltek » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 1:50 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

(I feel like we jumped topics from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597895)

JIRA's Search is far worse than the regular JIRA hotkeys. The Enter key will incorrectly tab-complete JQL just before executing the search. Meanwhile, the Tab key doesn't tab-complete and instead focuses the Search button (which lets you execute the uncorrupted JQL). You have to actively train yourself out of how everything else works just to avoid going insane. Well, that or use the mouse just to click Search (eww).

Every ticket tracking system sucks. Trello was the closest thing to joy.