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I laughed out loud at the expansion control in place of the "close" X in the corner of the T&C modal.
"Send to Bottom" of the help box is hilarious
03:51 I laughed out loud when I got to the bottom of the last page and didn't see checkboxes and realized the checkboxes were above the pictures and not below and had to scroll to the top.
Did I just keep getting the Captcha choices wrong?
For Canadians... I love this one: ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE: A1A1A1 Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can't reformat the input!
Another problem is phone numbers: if you want to use some autofill functionality, your phone number will often include the country code part but the field won’t allow a + (maybe in this case the autofill feature should drop the country code (and add a 0) or replace the + with 00).
I’m not actually sure about the significance of the space in U.K. postcodes. I feel like it shouldn’t be significant as one can imagine a regex for the two parts, /([A-Z]+[0-9]+)\s*([0-9][A-Z]+)/, but I then there are exceptions like EC1R.
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Really the entire idea of client/server-side email "validation" kind of seems like an ancient, cockroach-like anti-pattern that is impossible to stamp out. Like, what is the problem they're even solving? One validates email addresses by sending an email with a token the user then acts on. There are useful things to do with emails, like checking against already registered ones (including any blacklists), but I can't t…
> like an ancient, cockroach-like anti-pattern that is impossible to stamp out. I feel like you just described email (or rather, "the" email spec, as if there was a single one) in general. Yes it obviously still serves its purpose but what consists a valid email-address (let alone email) is specified in such a godawful way that every application that I've seen in the wild trying to address this problem somehow fails…
But the concept of email is extremely useful, valuable, understandable, and it's standardized and out of the centralized control so common for anything developed these days. I'd be happy to see some sort of email 2.0, cleaned up, with modern encryption by default and so on that served as a replacement. But I don't know of anybody even proposing such a thing. Instead the rage is to create yet another fucking instant messenger or slack thing or whatever.
Everyone knows the spec is ancient and has had a lot grafted onto it. But it's not going anywhere without a good replacement and even with that the transition would take a very, very long time. So as is so very, very often the case in computing we just have to deal with that.
One past thread: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 - July 2019 (255 comments)
and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 on July 3, 2019
and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351023 on July 4, 2019
Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…
Well...I did it...somehow...I did... 00:06:57 That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did... Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites. That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I…
Also, if you got to the capcha and got it on the first try, go back and fail it a few times. They have some really clever ones.
One past thread: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 - July 2019 (255 comments)
And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353724 on July 4, 2019 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 on July 3, 2019 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351023 on July 4, 2019