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As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a ht

As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably stop upvoting (currently 18)… I probably shouldn’t have posted it even.

reidjs 5y ago
Unfortunately html input type=date rarely works in mobile browsers.
- samwillis 5y ago
  Don’t really want to continue an off topic discussion but it is widely supported and you can conditionally load a fall back easily. https://caniuse.com/input-datetime https://caniuse.com/input-datetime
- deleted 5y ago
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wyclif 5y ago
When I saw that I immediately said, "There is no way I'm going to click that many times like a rat in a lab experiment" and closed the tab.
cirrus3 5y ago
I almost gave up using it due to the year picker. If I can see the year I should be able to click it, but on this one you actually have to scroll down until it is no longer faded at all.
- thepaulmcbride 5y ago
  I’ve fixed it now
dang 5y ago
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- samwillis 5y ago
  Apologies dang, I regret the post. Quite right pushing it to the bottom where it rightly should be.
  - dang 5y ago
    The problem, of course, is more with the upvotes than the original comment. But we can't really address the problem at that level. I suppose we could let people mark their own comments off topic, which would drop them to the bottom of the page...
- Zababa 5y ago
  The website is made to show you how much time you have left, to highlight that time is precious. To get this reminder, you have to enter your date through a date picker. This date picker is cumbersome, and makes you waste time. I think this is not a tangential annoyance, but a central one. Those two things are in opposition, and this detracts a lot from the message of this website. If time is so precious, why is my time wasted by an unknown file picker with a foreign interface?
  - dang 5y ago
    You have a point, but it's still pretty tangential at a macro level. The main macro-level thing is that the thread at the top of a page should be responding to the core of the story—or on rare occasions, be something surprising and even more interesting than the story. The UX of a date picker on the page doesn't clear that bar. That doesn't mean it's unimportant, just that the top of an HN page is not the appropriate context for it. Unless, of course, the story is about the UX of date pickers!

reidjs 5y ago

Unfortunately html input type=date rarely works in mobile browsers.

samwillis 5y ago
Don’t really want to continue an off topic discussion but it is widely supported and you can conditionally load a fall back easily. https://caniuse.com/input-datetime https://caniuse.com/input-datetime
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wyclif 5y ago

When I saw that I immediately said, "There is no way I'm going to click that many times like a rat in a lab experiment" and closed the tab.

cirrus3 5y ago

I almost gave up using it due to the year picker. If I can see the year I should be able to click it, but on this one you actually have to scroll down until it is no longer faded at all.

thepaulmcbride 5y ago
I’ve fixed it now

dang 5y ago

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

samwillis 5y ago
Apologies dang, I regret the post. Quite right pushing it to the bottom where it rightly should be.
- dang 5y ago
  The problem, of course, is more with the upvotes than the original comment. But we can't really address the problem at that level. I suppose we could let people mark their own comments off topic, which would drop them to the bottom of the page...
Zababa 5y ago
The website is made to show you how much time you have left, to highlight that time is precious. To get this reminder, you have to enter your date through a date picker. This date picker is cumbersome, and makes you waste time. I think this is not a tangential annoyance, but a central one. Those two things are in opposition, and this detracts a lot from the message of this website. If time is so precious, why is my time wasted by an unknown file picker with a foreign interface?
- dang 5y ago
  You have a point, but it's still pretty tangential at a macro level. The main macro-level thing is that the thread at the top of a page should be responding to the core of the story—or on rare occasions, be something surprising and even more interesting than the story. The UX of a date picker on the page doesn't clear that bar. That doesn't mean it's unimportant, just that the top of an HN page is not the appropriate context for it. Unless, of course, the story is about the UX of date pickers!