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author here. I wasn't aware this was an issue, sorry about that. I'll fix it

• lsalvatore 6y ago
  It's cool that you fixed this, but you shouldn't apologize to this person. You published a free article on your own site. This commenter rudely criticized your site for their nontypical edge case without an ounce of respect. They are lucky to have gotten your attention at all.
  • vorpalhex 6y ago
    There's value in listening to your audience, and it sounds like the author didn't intend for cookies to be required to use the site. I don't think the commenter was being rude either, though it's obvious they're frustrated (understandably). You can choose to cooperate with others or fight them. Usually when we cooperate, things are improved.
    • obedm 6y ago
      This is my sentiment. I'd feel frustrated as well if I was on their shoes (visited an interesting article, but it didn't work because of something silly). It was also unexpected. I didn't even know localStorage could be broken by disabling cookies haha.
    • seattle_spring 6y ago
      > though it's obvious they're frustrated (understandably) It reminds me of the meme where a guy is riding his bike, inserts a stick into his own wheel while riding, falls over (understandably), and then blames someone else for his fall.
      • vorpalhex 6y ago
        When I visit a news site, to read an article, I get a video that scrolls along with me and autoplays. So I disable video autoplay. This breaks some video conferencing apps. It's a choice I have to make - some broken apps or a bunch of annoying websites. Some websites use my cookies and localstorage to track me across properties. They do this so they can harvest my profile data and habits and sell them for profit without my permission. Again, it's a choice and I think it's a fair one to make. As engineers, we don't exist to punish our users for making choices different from ours. That's a great way to end up without any users. We should make their experience as good as we can and give them value. Sometimes that isn't possible - I can't make a video conference app that's immune to blocking autoplay. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
        • obedm 6y ago
          I whole-heartedly agree with this. Unless you implement a must-have feature based on localStorage or whatever, your site should still fully (or at least partially) function without it. In my case, I was aghast my blog didn't work without cookies. I don't even have ads running on it, and it's static, it should work on my grandmother's toaster!