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Another big annoyance is websites with recipes that do any of the following indcredibly bad UX patterns: - Big white page not showing any text or images until
by dheera 3y ago
Another big annoyance is websites with recipes that do any of the following indcredibly bad UX patterns:
- Big white page not showing any text or images until the entire page and its assets are downloaded, which means if you accidentally click something and go back you have to wait another several seconds for everything to load again
- Pop up GDPR popup while hands are covered in flour and eggs
- Pop up "would you like to subscribe to the newsletter" while hands are covered in sticky sauce
- Pop up "buy this shit for 10% off" with a microscopic X button while something on high heat on the stove
- Not specifying image height and width in CSS so that when user is looking at a piece of text and images above it load, the scrolling position jumps
For these reasons alone I've largely stopped looking at the internet for recipes and turned to physical books, which are much better behaved.
- BizarroLand 3y agoDon't forget the lazy-loading pages that don't properly set their flex box positions so that when you go to click on something a new link pops in at the place you were just about to click that takes you to a different page. I'm tempted to say that this is a dark pattern because when it happens to me is is almost always a "subscribe", "purchase", or "login" button.
- robocat 3y ago> dark pattern I wonder how often dark patterns are the result of goal directed A/B testing? If the goal is set to "did the user click on an advert" - and the A/B changes are fuzzed CSS - then the results would be deviously dark.
- dheera 3y agoReminds me of how my company is now tracking badge swipe data to try to enforce people going into the office 3 days per week, and sending tickets to managers about their reports who fall short of it. Someone probably invented it to hit some KPI of number of employees going to the office 3 days per week. The reality is people are going to the office sick and spreading all kinds of viruses, I often have to take meetings from my car because I can't find a meeting room, among many, many other problems. But that dude that implemented the system probably got a promotion.
- chedabob 3y agoI've started copying these recipes into Crouton https://crouton.app/ https://crouton.app/ It does a remarkable job at extracting the recipes, and the end result is a consistent experience no matter the source.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoI've been using Paprika https://www.paprikaapp.com/ https://www.paprikaapp.com/ for much the same thing. It's amazing how useful it is.
- duderific 3y agoSame idea at https://justtherecipe.com https://justtherecipe.com - also you can login with Google account and save recipes there.
- mcfedr 3y agoYou just described all websites
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- incahoots 3y agoThankfully reader view defeats most of this, though it has it's drawbacks, but the majority of what you need is readily available via this method.