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Another fuck you pattern from Instagram is hiding the keyboard when you go to search for a user to encourage you to get distracted and tap on a suggestion rathe
by colordrops 5y ago
Another fuck you pattern from Instagram is hiding the keyboard when you go to search for a user to encourage you to get distracted and tap on a suggestion rather than what you were searching for. You have to tap search three times to actually see the keyboard. It has to be intentional because it's been happening for years.
- binarymax 5y agoIMDB is doing this now too. Infuriating.
- stevenwoo 5y agoI scrape imdb for some personal web pages and imdb has the weirdest things now to prevent scraping like custom media viewers and obscuring most of plain text inside deep, almost indistinguishable hierarchies.
- Spivak 5y agoWait wha? What’s the flow here to produce this? I open IG, tap into the search tab, tap the search bar, keyboard appears, type in user, tap result. Do you want tapping into the search tab to autofocus the search bar and open the keyboard. I can totally understand that but IG’s search tab is more a discovery thing now. Which like evil’s of social media aside was a sorely needed feature since finding people to follow has always been hard on Twitter and IG.
- colordrops 5y agoAre you on Android? You have to tap search icon, then the search bar, after which the keyboard pops up then disappears, then tap the search bar again.
- Spivak 5y agoI’m on iOS so I don’t think that’s supposed to happen. Definitely wouldn’t be the first time Android gets the shaft in terms of app quality from large companies. Looking at you Google whose iOS apps are better than their Android apps for some reason.
- colordrops 5y agoPerhaps iOS doesn't allow it. It's a valuable "bug" for Instagram, so they have no incentive to fix it. Otherwise the app is relatively bug free, and this issue has existed for years, so I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt. Facebook absolutely doesn't deserve it.
- owlninja 5y agoMy Android device works the same as the iOS user described.
- colordrops 5y agoI've seen it on multiple android devices. But even if only one tap on the search bar is necessary, it's still an antipattern, as the user clearly wants to search, and the keyboard should come up right away. Recommendations and suggestions should not be conflated with search, or at least shouldn't override search.
- owlninja 5y agoYea fair enough - and that page is always incredibly jarring at first.
- burlesona 5y agoWow, I don’t use Instagram so I haven’t seen this, but that’s a very nasty pattern.