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How is that a “dark pattern?” There’s no deception involved. You’re calling things “dark patterns,” but I think you think dark patterns are just UX you find ann
by orhmeh09 6y ago
How is that a “dark pattern?” There’s no deception involved. You’re calling things “dark patterns,” but I think you think dark patterns are just UX you find annoying.
- fartcannon 6y agoI call it a dark pattern because it indirectly discourages the use of interoperability in file formats. The suggestion is 'use xlsx or suffer this annoying pop up'. It's an easy fix. Have an option to disable it. The other dark pattern, since we are chatting about them, is that you cant disable auto formatting. Excel will try to guess at your data, forcing you to jump through hoops to prevent it. The subtle suggestion is 'just use xlsx and this problem goes away' when in fact, they could offer an option to disable autoformating.
- gsich 6y agoCSV is not interoperable as you lose the formulas.