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I really, really dislike the 'for your own good' impetus that seems to be a common current design trend. We're already dealing with information-density loss an
by Baeocystin 5y ago
I really, really dislike the 'for your own good' impetus that seems to be a common current design trend.
We're already dealing with information-density loss and the Fisher-Pricification of the GUI, and maybe this is the next step in overwrought 'we know what you want to do better than you'.
I have no ire for the creator of this.
But respect boundaries, people. You are not your user's parents.
- dheera 5y agoExactly. This page which uses device time doesn't work well for me because I use UTC as my device time regardless of where I am in the world. IP geolocation isn't a good idea either because I often access pages through a VPN in another timezone. In short, nice thought but no thanks. Also, great way to get your page downranked if a search engine comes prowling around your website at night.
- enneff 5y agoYou’re probably one of about 100 people in the world who set their device time to UTC. I don’t think it’s reasonable for any designer to cater for this use case.
- easton 5y agoEvery time I set up a server I set it to UTC, since who knows where I’m accessing it from anyhow. Maybe OP thinks similarly of their PC?
- dheera 5y agoPart of it is for log file continuity, but the bigger reason is that I actually manage my entire life in UTC. All the clocks, watches, phones, and even rice cooker in my home read UTC. I tried timezones and DST for a while and hated it, and decided to do away with it.
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- dheera 5y agoThey don't need to cater to me, but they don't need to deliberately go out of their way to impede my access to information.
- zestyping 5y agoHi there! I also set my laptop and wristwatch time to UTC. I wonder how many people actually do this.
- leafmeal 5y agoIt's common in western Europe and parts of Africa.
- duxup 5y agoWhat is the value of always setting it to UTC ?
- bowmessage 5y agoIt’s early… Nothing we can offer you is more important than your health. Eat well, run some laps, and we will catch you in the afternoon. This site will be usable after 100 push ups.
- phinnaeus 5y ago> This site will be usable after 100 push ups. Only if you have some advanced accessibility features that lets me use the site without my arms, which are now completely limp.
- enneff 5y agoHonestly, I’ll take designers thinking about the well-being of their users, even if it comes across as condescending. The common alternative is to wring as much attention out of the user as possible, pushing their buttons so they keep using the app until every last drop of dopamine has been exploited.
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- jedimastert 5y agoAt the same time, if you gear your website's performance towards engagement (e.g. I'd like people to read a bunch of stuff, stay for a while), you may feel an obligation to limit the effect your website has on someone's normal functions. Take Hacker News, for example. This is not a site that maliciously steals attention for the gain of the owners. It still has the capacity to be a solid time sink. If the admins felt so inclined (and I'm very much not insisting they should), they could say "this could cause harm. Maybe we mitigate that harm by putting an extra barrier?" And they actually do! Check out "noprocrast". Admittedly this is opt-in instead of opt-out, but websites (and even businesses in general) can sometimes take into account the wellbeing of customers over what measure of "efficiency" they may have.
- fyrabanks 5y agoA really interesting hack I do, personally, is to stop reading Reddit when it’s time to go to sleep—-or even just be productive while awake! It’s not quite the same as when Mommy tucks me into bed and turns the lights off, but I still find it helpful.
- duxup 5y agoThey're not your parents, but it is their site.