Speaking of fuck you patterns, has anyone else been part of the A/B test where navigating to an Instagram page prevents you from using the back button? They somehow clean my tab history so that I can’t go back to Google. It’s been happening to me for months!
The 'Fuck You' Pattern
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
old.reddit.com is still around, for now, and does not have any of this garbage.
It'll eventually be removed with the reasoning that its hardly used and most traffic uses the new Reddit and now they can focus on improvements without having to support this legacy code.
If they do (and it wouldn't surprise me), people will start making third party desktop clients (or rather, they'll start getting popular).
If they ban those, then we'll see some major migrations methinks.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
The web reddit is just awful. Leave a thread open for some time, and navigation even breaks.
The best part is clicking a link, loading a page, and it just says “Something broke” Twitter does this too. How the fuck is it even possible?
Glad it's not just me. Twitter seems to break more often when a page is loaded from the browser cache, but I can't pin down any other pattern for the “Something broke” errors on both mobile and desktop.
Will Twitter ever have more than two 9s of reliability as measured from the user's POV?
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#104I'm glad we now have a name for this. If I may take a stab at a more formal, reusable definition of the Fuck You pattern: A UI pattern whereby content a user wants is provided, then yanked away before it can be consumed, to be replaced by a demand for something the site wants (log in, sign up, subscribe, pay, etc). It's distinct from merely providing a limited amount of content in the first place, as when a site offe…
Great, now my boss is going to ask me to implement this.
Thanks.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinterest and Reddit are not better these days. The amount of things you can view on reddit on your phone without creating an account or installing the app is dwindling daily. Every time my wife sends me a Pinterest link I just ask her to screenshot it as I can't see shit on the default mobile page. I don't even know why Google continues to allow them in the results when there is clear-cut policies around showing som…
old.reddit.com is still around, for now, and does not have any of this garbage.
old.reddit is ok, but it's rarely used for links. I know there's a plugin, but I can't stand the idea of adding plugins for things like that. The only reason I have a reddit account is because you can change preferences to be even better than old.reddit (e.g. turn off custom themes, disable outbound click tracking, no thumbnails, compact list, etc.). It basically looks like HN after what I do to it. I know it's all arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship but I hope a decent rescue ship gets here before it's all gone.
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#106I 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 and Reddit are not better these days. The amount of things you can view on reddit on your phone without creating an account or installing the app is dwindling daily. Every time my wife sends me a Pinterest link I just ask her to screenshot it as I can't see shit on the default mobile page. I don't even know why Google continues to allow them in the results when there is clear-cut policies around showing som…
Just go to https://teddit.net/
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinterest and Reddit are not better these days. The amount of things you can view on reddit on your phone without creating an account or installing the app is dwindling daily. Every time my wife sends me a Pinterest link I just ask her to screenshot it as I can't see shit on the default mobile page. I don't even know why Google continues to allow them in the results when there is clear-cut policies around showing som…
old.reddit.com is still around, for now, and does not have any of this garbage.
And you just KNOW it's going to disappear. Not immediately of course, some slight visual breakages here and there. Then some hotshot manager is going to point out how it doesn't bring any "value" to the company and how in fact it actually hurts reddit's image. Then it will be gone.
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#108Funnily enough the Instagram link in the blog post worked fine for me, because I use the "Privacy Redirect" extension which sent me to https://bibliogram.art/u/polite_cat_olli_official
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is worse, is that even though I installed the official app to squelch this nonsense (the Fuck You Pattern is effective) the mobile site still prompts with "Open in the Reddit App". When I click it my iPhone opens the App Store. The App Store then has a big blue "Open" button to launch the app, but of course all context is lost and opening from there brings you to your Reddit front page.
Reddit's app registers itself as a uri handler for reddit links but (thanks to google) AMP or iframe results don't prompt the actual system uri handler that would take you to the app.
Isn't that a failure of the reddit devs rather than of Google? They could have the app register for amp.reddit.com links.
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#110Oh, I’ve got a perfect example of a ‘Fuck You’ pattern in the wild, and it’s served with a side of ‘user gas-lighting’.
The gun.deals app, (specifically the iOS version, though I suspect android is engineered the same way), is your typical design of stacked rows of links for deals on, you guessed it, gun stuff.
As with these apps, the user scrolls down the list by dragging their finger upward. Except on gun.deals, the app will [intentionally] misinterpret the first contact of the finger as a ‘click’ on the row item. This causes the user to have to back out of the item they had intended to scroll past. (While almost certainly delivering fraudulently obtained ‘impressions’ that the app maker can represent to advertisers and vendors they are selling data and screen share to).