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Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by saberworks »

Apple maps enrages me for doing this. When you first open the app it like shows a screenshot of what you were looking at last time while it loads. Sometimes that screenshot is retained as the active view (for example if I have a search up), but other times after a couple of seconds the whole app just resets. This causes me to hit the "dictation" button quite often instead of the X button that was on screen when I start tapping (X button to close previous search result is replaced with a view reset and now the dictation button is under my thumb).

A screenshot of the app shouldn't be a loading screen!! It seems to depend on how long it's been since the app was last opened and/or how the internet connection is at the time. Bank apps show a proper loading screen.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by chillfox »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #119
NikkiA wrote: post #15

A particular bane of mine is the self-oscillating UIs, youtube is particularly bad at it these days - if the mouse pointer is in 'just the right place' (which is bigger than it sounds) then you get the seek-bar preview frames popup, which moves things just enough that the mouse pointer is no longer over the area that triggers it, so it vanishes, and the whole thing starts again.

Slightly unrelated, but all these media streaming apps and services like Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube etc. are so horrible by automatically playing whatever the fuck I am currently focused on, although I am just scrolling to somewhere to find my content. There is no way for users to focus "out" of the thumbnails, other than focusing on a different thumbnail, and it keeps playing the nonsense. All I would do is go back…

As someone who usually keep the mouse away from what I am looking at (I find it distracting) It's super annoying for random shit that I am not looking at to be activating.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by atahanacar »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #138
princevegeta89 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slightly unrelated, but all these media streaming apps and services like Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube etc. are so horrible by automatically playing whatever the fuck I am currently focused on, although I am just scrolling to somewhere to find my content. There is no way for users to focus "out" of the thumbnails, other than focusing on a different thumbnail, and it keeps playing the nonsense. All I would do is go back…

At least on YouTube you can turn that off.

...only if you have an account.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

#194

Post by yieldcrv »

Instagram’s search screen is the worst for this

You start typing and at first it shows you best matched accounts - things you recently visited or you follow - and then it loads in search suggestions on top of them, pushing the whole layout down

when in reality you already saw the thing you were going to click on and now you misclicked on one of the suggestions

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by kevmo314 »

The one that aggravated me the most was https://cloud.google.com/

The "Console" button on the top right shifts just at the right point in time for me to see it but miss clicking it.

I trained myself to start typing con to autocomplete console.cloud.google.com instead.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by colanderman »

aendruk wrote: post #116
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #20

Related to this, here's a pet peeves of mine. When YouTube is buffering a video, it shows a spinner and you can't press play or pause. Usually if something is buffering a lot I'm in a place with spotty internet, so I'd like to pause until I'm somewhere with better Internet. If I say pause, you should not continue playing the video under any condition. I have made my intent clear.

Reminds me of my Dell monitor. Years old muscle memory is: 1. Unplug laptop from monitor 2. Power off monitor but step one triggers some automatic input detection mode for about 10 seconds during which the monitor ignores its power button .

Similarly, my car (Subaru) won't let me turn off the radio for 10 seconds when I start it because it needs to display some ridiculous warning.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by colanderman »

devnullbrain wrote: post #79
romellem wrote: post #7

I agree with [this][1] idea: > an autocomplete has one chance to reorder per keystroke. if you got it wrong and you have a better ordering a bit later you must “swallow the sadness” (as per the original author of this wisdom) but never change already displayed items [1]: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1470751551568363530

I want foo. - Type 'f' - foo appears in the search. - Type 'o', because I type with 10 appendages and getting them to work together requires pipelining. - foo disappears from the search This should never happen.

+1000. I forget which search -- it's probably macOS Spotlight -- drives me batty with this daily.

Firefox has a related misdesign. If you type a word which matches both a search keyword and a history item, the search keyword takes precedence -- which is nonsensical, since I've typed nothing (not even a space) following the search keyword. So e.g. I have a `cpp` keyword to search `en.cppreference.com`; typing `cp`+Enter brings up `en.cppreference.com`, as does `cppr`+Enter, but `cpp`+Enter does a search for an empty string.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by colanderman »

ldjb wrote: post #71

Something that really frustrates me is when an alert pops up on my screen just as I'm about to tap something, so my tapping then dismisses the alert before I've had a chance to read what it said. Hopefully the contents of said alert weren't important, but in most cases I'll never know…

In addition to this, macOS has the following bizarre behavior with notifications.

If any one application emits multiple notifications (say, several new calendar items), they pop up in a group -- but this is hard to see, since they're all stacked on top of one another. There is an X at the top-left corner, just like all other notifications. When you go to click the X, the group suddenly expands, and the X changes into a "Clear All" button!! 80% of the time this results in me closing a large stack of notifications without realizing they even existed.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by meibo »

krick wrote: post #28

Oh, it gets better. On Android (at least, LG-flavored one — never used any other android phone) I have an issue with inter-app "Share" button popup. It somehow manages to re-shuffle all the suggestions (apps/recipients) exactly in the same amount of time that is natural for me to spend before clicking on the desired contact. Which several times made me send something to a wrong person, which resulted in extremely awk…

This still happens and it's the absolute worst, it gets worse the more apps you have. It's also just incredibly strange how it choose who to show in the share menu and there's no way to exclude apps.

No, I never want to share anything ever at all to #company-all on Slack. Do not show it in my YouTube share menu when I want to send a dog video to my partner.

Re: Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

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Post by techsupporter »

saberworks wrote: post #191

Apple maps enrages me for doing this. When you first open the app it like shows a screenshot of what you were looking at last time while it loads. Sometimes that screenshot is retained as the active view (for example if I have a search up), but other times after a couple of seconds the whole app just resets. This causes me to hit the "dictation" button quite often instead of the X button that was on screen when I sta…

> Apple maps enrages me for doing this. When you first open the app it like shows a screenshot of what you were looking at last time while it loads.

This has started to really irritate me since it feels like every application in Apple's mobile ecosystem does this. My device has SIX GIGABYTES OF MEMORY[0]. Why do you need to swap everything out of RAM almost instantaneously?

What grinds my gears the most is that state isn't preserved. Apple Maps and Music are the absolute worst for this. Music will show the same screenshot and then just unceremoniously dump me to the "Listen Now" or "Browse" screen (it seems random which) and completely disregard whatever playlist or album I was in. The last song I played and track position are kept but good damn luck getting back to the spot I was in--particularly which playlist--before the app got put on ice.

That screenshot is just a point of "hahaha nope" frustration.

0 - Yes, I mean actual Random Access Memory, not "storage capacity."

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