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

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Google used to do this for me a lot. I'd search for a phrase, click on the first result - and while I'm clicking it, an ad would appear in its place and push the first result down, directing my click on an ad instead.

I have some suspicions that it was done that way on purpose.

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

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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…

> Slightly unrelated, but all these media streaming apps and services like Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube e Slightly related, but does anyone know how come Netflix's search algorithm (for lack of a better word) and its general search-related UI is so bad? A specific use-case that I had a few days ago was that I wanted to watch a nice comedy movie, preferably not from the last few years. There was no easy filter on time…

It used to be accurate and much better at the time they had ratings for their content, but I think it all changed when they removed that feature since they wanted all their content to be consumed, they then would present even low relevancy results on the top during the search.

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

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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.

Concrete example from my firefox url bar - type 'for' - forums.overclockers.co.uk appears, this is where I'm going, I go here once on most days type 'forums', because my fingers didn't get the memo to stop - forums.samygo.tv appears at the top, a site I haven't visited (on purpose) in almost a decade, mostly because I don't have that tv any more. Massively annoying.

On the other side it is rational if you think about it in abstract where there is no latency between screen and keyboard input. The likely reason you continued typing is that the prompt didn't include what you wanted.

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

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This joke UI for the Hawaii nuclear missile alert system is my favourite depiction of this. https://gfycat.com/queasygrandiriomotecat

Even funnier that there is a control bar for gfycat itself that gets covered by a cookie acceptance popup that shows up after a second or so. Try to pause this and you'll get blocked halfway through your own click.

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

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Concrete example from my firefox url bar - type 'for' - forums.overclockers.co.uk appears, this is where I'm going, I go here once on most days type 'forums', because my fingers didn't get the memo to stop - forums.samygo.tv appears at the top, a site I haven't visited (on purpose) in almost a decade, mostly because I don't have that tv any more. Massively annoying.

On the other side it is rational if you think about it in abstract where there is no latency between screen and keyboard input. The likely reason you continued typing is that the prompt didn't include what you wanted.

I can see it as rational from a number of viewpoints - "When user types 'fo' they want to go here, 'foru' usually results in this, 'forum' has this result etc etc.

But I think all those other viewpoints lead to less desirable behaviour, for me. I'm not going to pretend it's universal because I don't have the research, but it pisses me off.

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

#340
I was always wondering if the ads that take some time to load and take over places where some useful links were previously are coded like this purposefully.

This is particularly visible on mobiles where I need to be really careful where I click and usually wait for the whole page to load, or have a muscle memory on where to click what (for pages I visit often)

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