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This is exactly why so many terrible "features" and design patterns keep showing up in web sites: People calling the shots are not the developers. They "saw thi
by astockwell 11y ago
This is exactly why so many terrible "features" and design patterns keep showing up in web sites: People calling the shots are not the developers. They "saw this on XYZ's successful site, plz implement today".
- Reedx 11y agoYep. The latest one seems to be newsletter popups that are suddenly infecting the web at large.
- walterbell 11y agoAt least newsletters support open-standard email "push" rather than the walled-garden-de-jour, after publishers lost their investments in "followers" to filter algorithms.
- Donzo 11y agoPop ups are bad in general. IMO, the worst are the full page, content-blocking, app install requests that appear on thin-content sites. It's preposterous. You've proven that you can't be trusted to present your website content in an acceptable manner, and you want me to install your software? Instant back button.
- duderific 11y agoHang on though. The people calling the shots, or at least providing feedback, should be the end users, not the developers. Usually the developers do not use the software they're building. In rare cases, the developers "eat their own dog food" but this is often not the case.
- astockwell 11y agoI absolutely agree when the web site is a tech product/application. I was more taking a stab at major news/media outlets and other "content" sites, whose non-technical "executives" blithely dictate that their devs perpetuate this buffoonery.