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The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

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Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

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post #35

CloudFlare might be good for site owners, but many times their page makes me click back to search results. I can't be the only one. It's slow and annoying, AI overview is good enough for me most of the times so that added time I bet makes websites lose a lot of visits.

Infinity captchas left a bad taste in my mouth. I hate AI but hate captchas more.

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No... Basically all git servers have to generate the file contents, diffs etc. on-demand because they don't store static pages for every single possible combination of view parameters. Git repositories also typically don't store full copies of all versions of a file that have ever existed either; they're incremental. You could pre-render everything statically, but that could take up gigabytes or more for any repo of…

> Git repositories also typically don't store full copies of all versions of a file that have ever existed either; they're incremental This is wrong. Git does store full copies.

git stores files as objects, which are stored as full copies, unless those objects are stored in packfiles and are deltified, in which case they're stored as deltas. https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/unpacking-git-pac...

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#53
post #14

Their final design looks incredibly visually unbalanced, the icon on the left does not have enough breathing room on the left and right.

This. I kept scrolling to find the new version, and couldnt believe that's where they landed on.

It doesnt .. look very new?

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#56

> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach. I'm not reading this.

To CloudFlare employees: This is a super interesting topic, but next time we'd rather hear from you, grammar mistakes and all, not from AI.

If I want AI slop, I'll gladly have a chat with my paid $20 bucks Gemini account.

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#57
post #29

> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach. I'm not reading this.

Their design approach wasn’t particularly unusual, so I’m not sure what that sentence means. I do miss the days when technical reports were clear and concise. This one has some interesting information, but it’s buried under a mountain of empty AI-written bloat.

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Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#58
post #14

Their final design looks incredibly visually unbalanced, the icon on the left does not have enough breathing room on the left and right.

Honestly the entire "redesign" just feels uninspired and poorly executed.

Another problem I have with it - they state that the red text was such a huge problem, but then their solution is to... Keep only using red? Why not, for example, make certain non-failure notifications yellow or some other color? Surely using other colors should at least be tested as a solution, right? The whole process seems bizarre to me

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#59
post #42

> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach. I'm not reading this.

That's why I say most AI content isn't just slop—it's fundamentally about deception. It's about tricking someone into believing that a text was written by a human, or that a photo or video is a true recording of a real event. Like this, its purpose is to fly under the radar unless your figurative ears are pricked up and primed to detect the telltale signs. Fuck this shit.

Can’t tell if the “it’s not X — it’s Y” as your first sentence is intentional irony or not lol

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#60
Conversation I heard recently:

We needed a new account on $MAJORSITE and we just could not get trough the captcha - I know, it's getting insane - In the end, we gave up, and just told $AI to make the account for us.

Something is going seriously wrong on the internet.

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