Earlier quoted context omitted.
But how else could you make sure people knew your content was coming soon!?!
"Under construction" gifs of course!
I'm way too much nostalgic right now.
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
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#122We should make a website that does everything in the opposite way: 1) Require adblock 2) Banner saying the website doesn't use cookies, which goes away if you mouseover 3) If you're on mobile, show a banner saying the website doesn't have an app 4) A signup form, but when you try to focus it, it turns into a banner saying "jk this website doesn't have signup"
5) Just sends you a newsletter
or is just stapled to the telephone pole on the corner
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#123Reminds me of the Impossible Quiz[0].
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#124That country selector that is all the country flags of the world in greyscale with colours only shown on mouse-over deserves a special mention. Not really a problem if you're just entering garbage information, but try to find the proper flag if you actually want the correct one. Bonus points if you are one of the many lucky citizens born under a flag that consists of three horizontal or vertical areas of equal size.
Even worse: several entries such as France, French Guyana share the exact same flag because they are, you know, the same country.
They are the same country
edit: Not sure why the downvotes. French Guiana is a region of France (the country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
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#126OMG the captcha was the WORST
there should be a cheat/bypass link on each page so you see everything without having to suffer
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#127Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#128“Your password can have at least one cyrillic character” WTF XD
Some time ago I tried registering an account on a site where the password policy was that you couldn't use special characters and that it would discard any characters you entered after the first 15 ones. But you know what the worst part was? They never bothered informing you about these limitations. The site just returned a generic error. Not supporting special characters I can kinda understand but silently discardin…
I once registered a password using a special character, but I could not get in. It turned out that they url encoded it, if I used %21 instead of "!" I could get into the site.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#129i cant get through the first screen. As a previous big-corp ui developer, it looks so familiar.
Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
#130We should make a website that does everything in the opposite way: 1) Require adblock 2) Banner saying the website doesn't use cookies, which goes away if you mouseover 3) If you're on mobile, show a banner saying the website doesn't have an app 4) A signup form, but when you try to focus it, it turns into a banner saying "jk this website doesn't have signup"
maybe: 2) only works with cookies disabled for the site otherwise: 5) works better with Javascript disabled 6) works better in Firefox than Chrome 7) doesn't work if it can read your referer
> 5) works better with Javascript disabled
Ironically, I find there's (broadly) two sorts of JS-enabled website:
- completely broken without (often just a blank canvas) - works better without than with
The most entertaining 'works better' example I've had is a site that gave me a free upgrade, because I was blocking client-side price manipulation.
Google Maps however: block canvas fingerprinting, and it's Goodbye CPU!