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Did anyone find the close button on the most annoying popup ever? Had to leave the page.

by thiscatis 5y ago

vaishnavsm 5y ago
I had to devtool remove it. Fortunately, they didn't obfuscate the popup like many seem to do nowadays.
deleted 5y ago
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ivank 5y ago
It seems to go away after a reload.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
  Ditto. Evidently I failed the IQ test to find it.
wodenokoto 5y ago
it's way up in to top right corner.
Hard_Space 5y ago
Top right corner, grey 'X'.
gumby 5y ago
Yes, the placement of the “X” was absurd. If it hadn’t been in a gutter I wouldn’t have found it.
chollida1 5y ago
Yes, but this type of thing is common for non technical people setting up blogs. it's probably a plugin that the author has no idea even exists. I had to close the page without reading as I couldn't figure out how to make it go away. Didn't seem to have a close button on it anywhere.
- danuker 5y ago
  > it's probably a plugin that the author has no idea even exists. It says "Built with ConvertKit". To get rid of it on every site, until they change it, add this uBlock Origin filter: *##.formkit-slide-in
- nerdponx 5y ago
  "Built with ConvertKit" My guess: the author never tested it, saw a bump in email subscriptions after adding it, so they kept it.
  - mring33621 5y ago
    well fart@fred.com is a new, eager subscriber!
- dougSF70 5y ago
  There was enough screen real estate for me to read the text, like peering over a fence.
cinntaile 5y ago
Is it gone cause I'm not seeing anything? You guys might need some more adblocking!
ilamont 5y ago
Had to switch to reader view. “X” was invisible.
mring33621 5y ago
I had to zoom out a few levels (ctrl- on windows/chrome), find the 'x' on the upper right side, close the popup, then zoom back in. Really crappy experience, 'ConvertKit'!
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 The greater problem is the upvotes which tend to push these things to the top of a thread, where they choke out interesting discussion. But it's harder to do anything about the upvotes.
- thiscatis 5y ago
  I appreciate the reminder of the rules dang, but this literally blocks the article and people are unable to read the submissions. And the fact it gets upvotes means it’s a valid concern.
  - dang 5y ago
    I agree that it's a valid concern. The trouble is that there's a competing valid concern, namely that such comments routinely get upvoted to the top of threads whenever the OP contains an annoyance (which is often!). Then they tend to sit at the top, choking out more interesting discussion. Since there are competing concerns, we have to decide how to weight them. For this, it is helpful to know what one is optimizing for. On HN, we're optimizing for intellectual curiosity [1]. Common/generic annoyances are generally less interesting than specific new information in an article, so we favor the latter over the former. It's not that the other concern is invalid, just a lesser priority relative to what we're optimizing for. Optimization is knowing how to rank valid things. It's easy to drop invalid ones. The current thread is an example. The highest comments after I marked this subthread off topic are https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30386892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30386892 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384256. It's better for either of those to be the top subthread instead of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384311, even though that popup is annoying. You can't go by upvotes alone. Some categories of comment routinely get more upvotes than they should, relative to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. This is a weakness of the voting system [2]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22upvotes%20alone%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Did anyone find the close button on the most annoying popup ever? Had to leave the page.

vaishnavsm 5y ago

I had to devtool remove it. Fortunately, they didn't obfuscate the popup like many seem to do nowadays.

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

ivank 5y ago

It seems to go away after a reload.

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
Ditto. Evidently I failed the IQ test to find it.

wodenokoto 5y ago

it's way up in to top right corner.

Hard_Space 5y ago

Top right corner, grey 'X'.

gumby 5y ago

Yes, the placement of the “X” was absurd. If it hadn’t been in a gutter I wouldn’t have found it.

chollida1 5y ago

Yes, but this type of thing is common for non technical people setting up blogs. it's probably a plugin that the author has no idea even exists. I had to close the page without reading as I couldn't figure out how to make it go away. Didn't seem to have a close button on it anywhere.

danuker 5y ago
> it's probably a plugin that the author has no idea even exists. It says "Built with ConvertKit". To get rid of it on every site, until they change it, add this uBlock Origin filter: *##.formkit-slide-in
nerdponx 5y ago
"Built with ConvertKit" My guess: the author never tested it, saw a bump in email subscriptions after adding it, so they kept it.
- mring33621 5y ago
  well fart@fred.com is a new, eager subscriber!
dougSF70 5y ago
There was enough screen real estate for me to read the text, like peering over a fence.

cinntaile 5y ago

Is it gone cause I'm not seeing anything? You guys might need some more adblocking!

ilamont 5y ago

Had to switch to reader view. “X” was invisible.

mring33621 5y ago

I had to zoom out a few levels (ctrl- on windows/chrome), find the 'x' on the upper right side, close the popup, then zoom back in. Really crappy experience, 'ConvertKit'!

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 The greater problem is the upvotes which tend to push these things to the top of a thread, where they choke out interesting discussion. But it's harder to do anything about the upvotes.

thiscatis 5y ago
I appreciate the reminder of the rules dang, but this literally blocks the article and people are unable to read the submissions. And the fact it gets upvotes means it’s a valid concern.
- dang 5y ago
  I agree that it's a valid concern. The trouble is that there's a competing valid concern, namely that such comments routinely get upvoted to the top of threads whenever the OP contains an annoyance (which is often!). Then they tend to sit at the top, choking out more interesting discussion. Since there are competing concerns, we have to decide how to weight them. For this, it is helpful to know what one is optimizing for. On HN, we're optimizing for intellectual curiosity [1]. Common/generic annoyances are generally less interesting than specific new information in an article, so we favor the latter over the former. It's not that the other concern is invalid, just a lesser priority relative to what we're optimizing for. Optimization is knowing how to rank valid things. It's easy to drop invalid ones. The current thread is an example. The highest comments after I marked this subthread off topic are https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30386892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30386892 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384256. It's better for either of those to be the top subthread instead of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384311, even though that popup is annoying. You can't go by upvotes alone. Some categories of comment routinely get more upvotes than they should, relative to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. This is a weakness of the voting system [2]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22upvotes%20alone%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...