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Also: STOP DISABLING ZOOMING. WTF!

greenknight 6y ago
my other pet peeve.... stop hi-jacking my scroll wheel and converting it to 'smooth scroll'. i dont want crappy animations, you have content, i have a method of scrolling, let me control how i do this.
- theprotocol 6y ago
  Smooth scroll that snaps to set scroll levels is absolutely infuriating. I question the psychological integrity of anyone who thinks it's a good idea; how much of a control freak must you be to want to micromanage people's scrolling?
- hnick 6y ago
  And 90% of the time, smooth scroll isn't.
- jamil7 6y ago
  Are people still doing this?! Haven't seen it in a while but it was one of the worst web trends of the last few years.
- umanwizard 6y ago
  Another obnoxious thing is how websites disable the normal behavior of Ctrl+F in favor of whatever their vision of what a search UI should look like is.
  - LukaD 6y ago
    Yeah, that's incredibly annoying. So frustrating when you're coming to a discourse thread from a google search. I tend to avoid discourse forums because of that.
- adwww 6y ago
  Ha I used to worked on a tablet app that did a load of industrial safety checks. We kept getting tickets to lock more and more of the device down as 'solutions' to support requests. One ticket was to lock the device to maximum brightness, because support had fielded some calls where the users couldn't see the screen. We then started getting calls from users who worked nightshifts complaining that this tablet bolted to their truck was blindling bright and there was nothing they could do to dim or turn off the screen...
Causality1 6y ago
The way AMP hijacks my Chrome menu bar and disables tab management until I scroll all the way back up the page to the top makes me actively wish death and despair upon its developers.
dependenttypes 6y ago
And stop having bars on sites that stick with me while I am scrolling. Not to mention the infinite scrolling insanity.
- jamil7 6y ago
  This is handy, I think theres one for Chrome too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/
Tistron 6y ago
And please, text selection on mobile. Why is that even possible?
- Tistron 6y ago
  Downvotes? Is it unclear that I mean that I don't want text selection to be disabled and I am questioning why you can disable that I can select the text in my browser of your website, or is someone really invested in having non-selectable text? I'm surprised.
  - marcosdumay 6y ago
    Your post literally says you do not want text selection to be available. Yes, as you said, this makes no sense, and the only available interpretation is that you do not want it disabled, but it took me a WTF moment before I got to that. Maybe some people are quick to downvote.
    - Tistron 6y ago
      Ok, perhaps "literally". But it's a reply, right? Context is a thing. - [...] A lot of software makes me jump through ridiculous hoops to do basic things. - Also: STOP DISABLING ZOOMING. WTF! - And please, text selection on mobile. Why is that even possible? I guess that's not clear at all once there are many replies. What I'm learning here is to craft responses that stand on their own. This is not a spoken dialogue.

my other pet peeve.... stop hi-jacking my scroll wheel and converting it to 'smooth scroll'. i dont want crappy animations, you have content, i have a method of scrolling, let me control how i do this.

theprotocol 6y ago
Smooth scroll that snaps to set scroll levels is absolutely infuriating. I question the psychological integrity of anyone who thinks it's a good idea; how much of a control freak must you be to want to micromanage people's scrolling?
hnick 6y ago
And 90% of the time, smooth scroll isn't.
jamil7 6y ago
Are people still doing this?! Haven't seen it in a while but it was one of the worst web trends of the last few years.
umanwizard 6y ago
Another obnoxious thing is how websites disable the normal behavior of Ctrl+F in favor of whatever their vision of what a search UI should look like is.
- LukaD 6y ago
  Yeah, that's incredibly annoying. So frustrating when you're coming to a discourse thread from a google search. I tend to avoid discourse forums because of that.
adwww 6y ago
Ha I used to worked on a tablet app that did a load of industrial safety checks. We kept getting tickets to lock more and more of the device down as 'solutions' to support requests. One ticket was to lock the device to maximum brightness, because support had fielded some calls where the users couldn't see the screen. We then started getting calls from users who worked nightshifts complaining that this tablet bolted to their truck was blindling bright and there was nothing they could do to dim or turn off the screen...

Causality1 6y ago

The way AMP hijacks my Chrome menu bar and disables tab management until I scroll all the way back up the page to the top makes me actively wish death and despair upon its developers.

dependenttypes 6y ago

And stop having bars on sites that stick with me while I am scrolling. Not to mention the infinite scrolling insanity.

jamil7 6y ago
This is handy, I think theres one for Chrome too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kill-sticky/

Tistron 6y ago

And please, text selection on mobile. Why is that even possible?

Tistron 6y ago
Downvotes? Is it unclear that I mean that I don't want text selection to be disabled and I am questioning why you can disable that I can select the text in my browser of your website, or is someone really invested in having non-selectable text? I'm surprised.
- marcosdumay 6y ago
  Your post literally says you do not want text selection to be available. Yes, as you said, this makes no sense, and the only available interpretation is that you do not want it disabled, but it took me a WTF moment before I got to that. Maybe some people are quick to downvote.
  - Tistron 6y ago
    Ok, perhaps "literally". But it's a reply, right? Context is a thing. - [...] A lot of software makes me jump through ridiculous hoops to do basic things. - Also: STOP DISABLING ZOOMING. WTF! - And please, text selection on mobile. Why is that even possible? I guess that's not clear at all once there are many replies. What I'm learning here is to craft responses that stand on their own. This is not a spoken dialogue.