I love this. Internet UIs have completely degraded over the last decade and seeing an actual company decide to try something different is beautiful. I barely see devs or designers try anything new. This team even added a screen saver if you leave the tab open and inactive for a bit! Wonderful.
Why our website looks like an operating system
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Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#302Easter egg: Trash > Employee feet pics
Curiosity got the best of me, opened it, pictures of feet.
"I'm not sure what I expected"
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. If they indeed only use the cookie for essential functionality, this kind of joke banner only makes their choice to respect visitors' privacy equally annoying. Even worse: because it makes it seem like the EU law is just meritless pestering of people, they are actually fighting for the right for worse sites to spy on their visitors. It's baffling.
> EU law is just meritless pestering of people It is that. It has done literally nothing to improve anything whatsoever, in any country. And most of the "cookie management" scripts that people use, barely even work. Both the law and the way it's complied with in practice are a dumb solution to a problem that the EU should have forced browser vendors to solve. Only the user's browser can choose not to send back cookie…
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they can reply back: "Hey, you're wrong".
Doesn’t usually go over well with regulators. If they have to prove their site is fully compliant in court it would become mighty expensive to do so. So, cookie banner it is.
A cookie banner still doesn't prove compliance. You're still going to have to prove that you don't track users who didn't opt-in. A cookie banner doesn't help anything with that.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#305It's neat but it runs like a dog. I opened a couple of things and tried to move the window... I'd take a statically generated bunch of webpages over this. If you're going to make one of those multi window webpages looking thing, make it good. To note, in the past, this was a big no-no because SEO was important. You had to have good SEO for search engines to index your content efficiently and show up well ranked in se…
Firefox? I had the same issue then tried edge and it was smooth.
I opened it in Firefox and it was perfectly smooth.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#306Please fix JS dependence (load more on server side, especially at first load, since your site doesn't render anything with JS disabled), accessibility, INP, security headers and structured data, and you'll then have a perfect, optimized marketing site for tech nerds. :) Love your brand, keep up the great work!
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they can reply back: "Hey, you're wrong".
Doesn’t usually go over well with regulators. If they have to prove their site is fully compliant in court it would become mighty expensive to do so. So, cookie banner it is.
You famously do not have to prove that you're innocent in court. Prosecution has to prove that you're guilty.
Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#308The UX problem with emulating windows within web pages is that if you do it convincingly enough (like this website does), the users will unconsciously use windows shortcuts, like alt+F4 to close the window, which closes the whole browser.
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds like an expensive solution to a marketing problem re. the product. And if one digs even further, perhaps an issue with your product line - the benefits of it aren't immediately presentable in a simplified way to the extent it is differentiated relative to the competitors.
Changing the product line to fit the marketing narrative sounds like putting the cart before the horse.
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Re: Why our website looks like an operating system
#310> Legally-required cookie banner > PostHog.com doesn't use third-party cookies, only a single in-house cookie You're legally required to let me opt out of that cookie. Unless it's essential to the site functionality, in which case you don't need the banner at all.
Exactly. If they indeed only use the cookie for essential functionality, this kind of joke banner only makes their choice to respect visitors' privacy equally annoying. Even worse: because it makes it seem like the EU law is just meritless pestering of people, they are actually fighting for the right for worse sites to spy on their visitors. It's baffling.
> because it makes it seem like the EU law is just meritless pestering of people
The law should have been just a browser setting sites had to follow, making it a "banner" has made it meritless pestering while pretending it's for my own good and allowing the worst offenders to make convoluted UI to try and trick you every site visit.