#bad user-interface

[thisischeri]

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[stellerssong]

great interaction on inat the other day, lads

[prazardous]

why does every game app have 10 pop ups trying to get you to buy smth every time you open the app and 10 different non-transferrable forms of currency and a ui overlay that is designed to overwhelm with 5 buttons in each corner all going to different important tabs but impossible to move between gracefully. just let me play one goddamn game

[r0semultiverse]

This is better(?) than the minimalism plague infecting modern web design, but not by much!

I do not like the mobile appification of web sites either! Looking at you as well, tumblr! By all means, get experimental with it (please do), but don't make everything look & function like a mobile app!

Hey, all supposed 34,175+ followers...

Can you do me a favor & go @ (or tag) Neal Mohan on twitter & tell him to have the YouTube video page layout changed back? I'm so serious, go bother him about it. If enough people do this & this gets around enough, resulting in more people to asking it be rolled back, it should at least get him to ask it to be changed!

[littledragonkana]

If there is any website that perfected understanding and catering to their target group its tumblr. I have to see a website with such a great feature as booping

[mostly-reblogs-here]

staff stop making the UI godawful challenge

[thatswhatsushesaid]

oh my god discord. what the fuck. what did they do to you

[zoanzon]

WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO THE DIRECT MESSAGE UI ON DESKTOP?!?!

[infinityonimmortals]

why tf did it take me a whole ass year to figure out google photos shitty layout so I could go back to photo dumping

[camgoloud]

should i set up a pillowfort maybe. i'm looking at their demo mode mock display right now and it is for real just knockoff tumblr in appearance and functionality as far as i can tell. will anyone set one up with me so we can migrate over there should the worst actually occur here this time

[bellaswan-bookclub]

tumblr users are less concerned with “making it big” since the platform isn’t really set up for going viral or monetizing your content. for something like goncharov to go viral on tumblr, a large percentage of the userbase has to be authentically invested in it

tiktok is designed around virality, so it attracts a lot of up-and-comers (small business owners, indie musicians, etc.) who use the platform to promote themselves. a viral tiktok trend like zepotha could have been started by anyone, but since a large percentage of tiktok creators are invested in promoting their own work, it makes sense that this trend was created by someone who is trying to use this virality to promote a longer-lasting career

i find it pretty interesting that goncharov was a fever dream fueled by creativity, collective effort, and a “yes, and” mentality while zepotha started as a very clever and engaging marketing ploy and has now become a competition to actually make the movie. i’m not exactly sure what that means but it sure feels like it means something

[astyrra]

why do no anime sites have the show im watching in decent resolution :/ it's bizarre bc the site i USED to watch it on got shut down, and it had good res, and every other site has the exact same fansubs but in 2005 youtube quality. why

[hasellia]

I'm sure it's possible by other methods; but I really want UBlock just for windows explorer. I Ublock to murder the 'Start back up' button and have it expelled.

Why does a button for OneDrive, a paid service, take up space on the GODDAMN FILE EXPLORER!!!???

[starstruckpurpledragon]

So there I was checking through my music on Amazon because the app wasn't downloading one of the Up Here songs for some reason so I was just gonna download it through the browser. Which was a chore in a half to get it to download because the Amazon Music browser experience is shit.

And then there's an ad for Amazon Music Unlimited that loads after I'd already clicked something on the page. Now I went to click the close button but I'm not sure I actually did before the damn thing is redirecting away (possibly having captured my click on the page for something other than what I was actually clicking) to what I thought was some kind of sign up page and not a congrats you have a fucking subscription you did not actually agree to page. I went back, downloaded my music, thought everything was fine.

Until I got an email a few minutes later congratulating me on my subscription that I had not actually agreed to in any way shape or fucking form. So guess who is now on hold with Amazon's customer service to get a refund on a subscription that I did not fucking agree to in the first place. It's been a long day, I'm tired, I do not have the patience for this shit but I'm trying really hard to be polite to the customer service rep because it's not her fault the Amazon website is so fucking predatory and customer hostile. And fucking illegal, I'm pretty sure that was not a legal move there on their part by having a pop up ad on a random page of the music part of their website act as confirmation for a subscription instead of taking you to the actual purchase screen and confirming it there.

It looks like I should receive a refund in a few days since, you know, refunds are processed based on business days and shit. My money can be spent without my permission easy, but not refunded as quickly. >_< And then there's like... seven bucks in promotional funds that I've asked if I can also get back because, hey, I was gonna buy books with that and then this predatory, unethical, (probably illegal) subscription thing ate them.

Anyway, moral of the story is... don't use Amazon Music to buy music anymore I guess. Admittedly, I've had the Up Here album for a while so it's not like this was a new purchase that suddenly bit me. Just noticed it was a song short and the app just... would not download it for me. Kept hitting some random error. So, hey, browser should be an easy alternative to access the shit I've already purchased right?

Pretty sure I'm just... not gonna buy music through Amazon at all after this.

(Okay, so she was able to get me the promotional credits back. So big kudos to her.)

[corpseattendant]

Bad interface