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> and tapping on the ‘others’ link in a reply, revealing an additional pop up pane with the participants They love popups enormously and made this antipattern

by ungzd 10y ago

> and tapping on the ‘others’ link in a reply, revealing an additional pop up pane with the participants They love popups enormously and made this antipattern popular over whole web. First their Bootstrap which has popups became popular and then everyone started to see popups as standard web feature. Now lots of websites have complex UIs inside popups (usually with its own forward/back navigation) and nested popups. Popups are used to "fix" scrolling amnesia — instead of following link, content is opened in popup (infinite scroll is also highly popularized by twitter).

firasd 10y ago
Yeah I agree. I'm not against the idea of the user staying on the same page to get more content, but for example when you click a tweet on the web to expand it and see replies, I would have designed e.g. a pane that 'slides in' from the right and can be closed by sliding out, rather than the frankly amateurish overlay. Also compare the way Facebook will let you 'expand in place' when you click see more/show replies/etc. rather than overlay their feed with a popup.