#website usability

[trisockatops]

So reddit already had a terrible setup with HUGE, what should be, site-breaking bugs.

One is that you cannot turn off notifications even though there are settings to do so. The settings mean absolutely nothing. Onsite notifications stay on regardless.

Two is that the block list just breaks at 1000 blocks and then doesn't even give you an error message. It just tells you it's blocked people...but doesn't actually block them.

Another was that there was always eccentricity with copy and pasting and auto-correct. It was never consistent. You could go through months where if you pasted something into a comment, it would then disable you from being able to type anything further and you'd have to reload the page and start everything over again or submit a comment that the formatting would then mess up on. Sometimes, if you used your browsers autocorrect to fix a typo, it would then erase all the text after that word and replace it with everything before that word so you were repeating yourself (how does a website even do that!?).

And now they've upgraded their layout A) to be uglier/busier/less intuitive, and B) introduced EVEN MORE bugs to it.

You cannot perform any actions on the home feed. If you play a video, the video will start twice somewhere? and overplay over itself. Any time you enter a thread and then back out of it, the video will then restart itself. You have to reload the whole homepage and therefore lose the topics you were looking at because you cannot set the home page to anything other than "Hot topics" view. If you report a thread from the home feed, every time you enter a thread and then back out of it, the report popup will re-load again. And again. And again.

Reddit used to have an auto-save-response feature where if you accidentally clicked out of a thread, you could return and your post would still be in progress. Not anymore. You lose everything if.

Reddit's posting formatting is now even more terrible. A) The formatting is auto-hidden. You have to click to reveal it every single time. B) Inserting a hyperlink is now A PROCESS. If you highlight the word to add the link, the prompt automatically sets you on the text instead of the link, so if you muscle memory paste your link, you erase your text. If you press enter on your keyboard instead of clicking "save", it will enter your hyperlink and add an extra paragraph space to your text, making the whole process slower and more annoying. C) You can't just paste quotes anymore. If you make a quote, then paste, it'll erase the quote function. You have to paste, then highlight, then turn it into a quote. Everything is just 10x slower and more annoying.

The fuck reddit. Fucking why.

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[normscary]

fandom wikia has pissed me off by existing again. ohhh i wanna fork the dndads wiki so bad it's so incomplete it wouldn't be that hard. (that's a lie wikis are so hard) (but it would be so satisfying bc fuck fandom wikia)

[hermitadaymay]

just a headsup that the queue ended up a little out of order but don't worry, we're still covering everything we missed!

-Mod Luna

[anishenanigans]

the Spotify app is actually fucking unusable oh my god what do you MEAN I have to pay to actually listen to the song I want to listen to in its entirety when I want to listen to it ??? And if I don’t pay them one billion dollars a month, I have to just listen to other songs I don’t want to hear indefinitely until it finally shows up on shuffle???????

[textfromthelookout]

Did you hear of the news?

I have. :(

Everyone else has their tributes so, here, a summary of my experience with Dragon Ball.

I was in fourth grade art class. A kid had the February 2005 issue of Shonen Jump, back when Shonen Jump was still physically printed here. I recognized Atem on the front cover because the Blockbuster around the corner from our house had DVDs (I think they were DVDs and not VHSs then since I distinctly remember it having a menu and special features) of some of the later episodes of Duelist Kingdom and my brother and I watched them on repeat. So I was like oh, hey, what's this? They make books of that stuff? I don't remember the conversation but the kid ended up giving me that issue, and I took it home with me.

There were a LOT of significant, groundwork things happening in that issue, now that I think about it. We were just beginning to see Sanji truly in action against Pearl. The Dark Tournament was in it's early stages still with Roto fucking around and finding out against Kurama. Sakura shears off her hair in a move that rearranged sexualities the world over. The reason Atem was on the cover was because Yu-Gi-Oh Millennium World was just debuting its first and second chapter. Bleach wasn't even serialized yet. And Dragon Ball, of course, was also there, about a hundred and fifty chapters ahead of everybody else.

Keep in mind that this was my first experience with manga, period. So my very first experience with Dragon Ball opened on this:

and ended on this:

Yeah. Truth be told, at the time Yu Yu Hakusho piqued my interest more than Dragon Ball (a guy fighting with plants? how creative!) but I never did forget these chapters. I thought the art style was so different from the others.

At some point after this, probably between several months and a year and a half, the TV happened to be on one evening when Toonami was airing Dragon Ball Z. Oh hey, I said, I recognize that art, I know those characters. So I hung around and watched some of episode 281. Two things about watching that episode stick with absolute crystal clarity in my mind to this day. Firstly: Buu choking Vegeta out with his arm freaked me the FUCK out as a child. I could not tell you why I had a fear reaction to it but hey, there you go. The second is this:

Specifically I remember 'You died once. If anything happens to you now, you won't exist anymore. There'll be nothing I can do to bring you back.' Not precisely word for word over the years, but Schemmel's tone of voice on this particular lineread. If I had to guess I'd say it was because at that point in my life, uh, death was kinda permanent? So wait, what do you mean died ONCE. Doesn't that apply to everyone?

This still wasn't enough to get me super invested in it though, it just didn't seem like something that would appeal to me that much. So a couple years go by, I don't think about it all that much, and then of course, TFS hits the scene and drops DBZ Abridged. So you know. As a shithead middle schooler with a shithead sense of humor I thought it was the best damn thing since sliced bread. (My biggest character flaw is that I still think a lot of Season 1 is genuinely funny)

And that was really the extent of my interaction with the franchise for the next several years. Say what you will about DBZA but they did manage to put it all together such that someone who had a nonexistent concept of what the original context was could grok it with not a lot of effort. Some time in high school, I think I was around 15, I decided to bite the bullet and read all the manga, as much to increase the funny factor of DBZA as sheerly for the sake of being able to say I had. Stick it to the other weebs, y'know. Now they can't say I didn't know anything about good anime. This was unfortunately at a time when all that was available online were dirty poor-quality scans and questionable translations, but read it I did. I went 'yep, that sure is about what I expected', and proceeded to get on with my life. GT came and went, I looked up and saw Battle of Gods coming out and went 'oh hey that's still a thing huh', kinda was peripherally aware of all the divisiveness of Super as it was happening, didn't really pay it much attention, just stuck to DBZA and quite a lot of wiki-ing.

And then, this time of year about three years ago now, in the middle of conversation with @prophecydungeon, Dragon Ball somehow came up. Something to do with 'Even though I'm not hugely into DBZ's story or whatever Toriyama does have some great character designs' (yes I was referring to Vegeta and Future Trunks at the time, no i will not stop being predictable, yes i am a parody of myself). They eventually brought up the DBS Broly movie and said, and i quote: 'that was a solid 1.5h of unbelievably fun and wacky animation'. Having seen the Gogeta vs Broly part of it on twitter and been like 'damn that animation's kinda off the hook actually, good for them good for them', my response was to be like. Oh word? I've got a spare hour and a half to kill, sure, fuck it, why not, time to watch DBS Broly.

I think that movie was precision crafted to hit me in the hyperfixation, if we're being honest. Opening on a solid 20 minutes of Lore and Worldbuilding and then having most of the rest of the runtime being mindless slobberknocker fun by way of some of the hardest animation flexes ever? I was done for.

In summation. I have been aware of Dragon Ball for a lot of my life, in that its presence was pervasive and enduring as I grew up. I may have been late to the game of actually wholeheartedly enjoying it, but enjoy it I do. Dragon Ball is the roots of a vast tree of anime, and in reading it I began to understand why that is. I respect it for that, and I love it for that. My current fixation may have shifted, but as far as time devoted to one individual thing goes... it took me a year and a half to watch my way through all of the anime and read all of the manga. ALL of it. So there's something good in there, I'd say.

[kasualkaymer]

y'all know that if the information is in the alt text, writing the alt text out again in an "image ID" is actually MORE hostile to screen-readers, right

[shining-latios]

listen man xwitter may be going to shit but until I have anything remotely equivalent on another popular social media platform to the way I can have an account that only a select few people I trust wholeheartedly can access or comment on or even look at, or until musk finally decides to axe locked accounts entirely, I ain't budging

[muirneach]

gasp. did the wta change their ui again. maybe its just because im on mobile but this looks different. this is almost usable. no way. is war over???

[dsmsix]

got back on twitter and was called bigoted towards gay men within the day. these people don’t understand the sibling rivalry between fags and dykes.

it was all because of a joke tweet about gay men stealing lesbian tv shows and how they should get their own fucking jobs. and my tweet was aimed at a friend who literally calls me fucking “truck driver” cause im a dyke like lmaoo be serious rn

[jaredthebc2]

I'm probably never gonna have a Twitter account where I actually post my spontaneous thoughts and feelings again but also I think of this tweet I made sometimes and start losing it

[karliahs]

the thing about having been on this website for infinitely too long is that i am deeply surprised every time it has...features. built in. with which you can do stuff

was reblogging a post and didn't want to have the commentary in the reblogs included, which for many years meant going to a blog before the additions and reblogging it from there. now there's just a little x you can press (on mobile anyway) and the reblogs disappear...

realised i wanted to have posts in my bnha tag separated by character even tho i hadn't been tagging them that way for the last couple months...was prepared to either do it manually or search for a third party add-on thing to help do it but. that's just a thing now. there's a mass post editor you can use to add tags