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Facebook's UI is really bad too. If someone links to an image it loads the page with the image, then a second or so later loads the same image in a modal. And i
by dawnerd 10y ago
Facebook's UI is really bad too. If someone links to an image it loads the page with the image, then a second or so later loads the same image in a modal. And if you try to click the image make it bigger it might just close the modal (that's not yet loaded) and take you to the person's timeline.
- mcintyre1994 10y agoAlso you can't navigate huge comment streams in Facebook. I always see some viral image with "xyz friend commented on this", click it and you just see the latest comments in the last 2 seconds.
- ashurov 10y agothis seems to only work well through the (iphone) app. accessing the website through chrome (or similar) shows the behavior you mentioned.
- joe_the_user 10y agoCertainly, Facebook has UI problems but I think there's more going on here. The thing about the Twitter UI isn't just that it's awkward or ugly but that it makes the platform itself itself bad - bad as in making-the-world-a-worse-place bad. When people can't ignore references to themselves, when they can only reply with short retorts, it turns Twitter into the shallow, ugly, uncivil platform that it currently is.
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- amelius 10y agoYes. But this is only cosmetic. My biggest problem is that when scrolling a timeline, clicking on something, then clicking back, does not take me to the same position in the timeline.
- vertex-four 10y agoWikipedia currently has a similarly annoying UX. If you click on an image, then copy/paste the link to someone else to open, it first loads the article you clicked on the image from, then a modal of the image.
- toomanybeersies 10y agoThe image modal can be disabled by the settings on the right of the modal.
- dawnerd 10y agoOh yeah that's annoying. And when you close it they push a new history state so if you hit back the modal opens again. Personally I think modals shouldn't be a URL. If you want it to be a permalink then make it a standalone page.
- vertex-four 10y agoIMHO, it should pushState a proper URL to the image, then history.back() to close it.
- Razengan 10y agoIMO, both Facebook and Twitter are just victims of the trend of using the web browser as a full-blown application platform.
- throwwit 10y agoNot only that, in my workflow I keep FB in the first Safari tab and open every story in other tabs, only to find out closing FB ruins every open outside link!