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

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

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Post by clearleaf »

plorg wrote: post #201
vidanay wrote: post #68

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YouTube also has the problem that there is almost no dead space to "park" your cursor. You have to carefully place it in between autoplaying previews.

Relatedly, many websites have nowhere to tap that doesn't do anything. If you try to select some text then want to tap away (to clear the copy/select all/etc popup) you can't do so without navigating away from the page or causing something else unwanted to happen. This gets doubly frustrating when navigational elements don't contain actual anchor links. If you long-tap on mobile to open in a new tab, the browser deci…

I can't stand this. When I have data entered into an app like that, it kind of feels like handling a live bomb. God forbid you palm the edge of the screen or fumble your phone.

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

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Post by guelo »

jiggawatts wrote: post #229
ryandrake wrote: post #182

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I really wish UIs would stop doing things on hover events altogether. Just because I stop my mouse doesn't mean I intend to do anything, let alone auto-play a video or have some pop-up explain something to me. Let me rest my goddamn hand for a second!

On an Android TV the YouTube app auto-plays videos if you stop moving the selection cursor for about a second. It feels so fantastically “pushy” to start playing the audio of some random junk that just happened to be under the selection reticle. They helpfully added a configuration option to turn this behaviour off, which is a tacit admission that it’s a misfeature that users want to disable. It does nothing. The vid…

wow must have been really bad because Google rarely adds configuration options and they pride themselves in ignoring user complaints.

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

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Post by bavell »

brokenmachine wrote: post #95
bavell wrote: post #78

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Same here, every time I share something from YouTube --> NewPipe, the icon is in a different place, even when I'm adding multiple videos to my queue one after another. Every. Damn. Time. So frustrating.

Yes, it seems to be random order. Not even "most recently used" or "most used", or anything. Just completely random - "fuck you, user - hunt though this random list". It boggles the mind who would ever think that would be a good idea.

Username checks out ;)

Glad I'm not the only one suffering through this misery!

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

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Post by track16 »

computerfriend wrote: post #208

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

That was a very scary day in Honolulu for all of us who live here. Ads will really be the death of us all, someday...

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

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Post by Moru »

brokenmachine wrote: post #351
Moru wrote: post #231

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I have a similar problem. I can't open the eyes at all that time of the day so I just try to feel my way to the phone. Most of the time I manage to turn off instead of snooze and wake up a lot later. My solution was to put the phone with the screen down and slightly lift it so the screen protector opens upp. When it closes again, it activates snooze. Took me a few times to figure that...

Mine had what actually was a cool feature, and the only thing I've ever used voice commands for - you could say, "snooze" or "dismiss". Worked really well. Then they took it away with an "update", so now I'm stuck with only the crap UI. Thanks Samsung.

Those machines have a hard time recognizing my voice already when I'm awake, doubt it would work any better in the morning :-)
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