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It's got worse since 2020 - one of my most irritating examples is chrome's changes in the last year or two to "bookmark manager." To add a bookmark folder dire
by JohnMakin 2y ago
It's got worse since 2020 - one of my most irritating examples is chrome's changes in the last year or two to "bookmark manager."
To add a bookmark folder directly, like that's your only intended action, here is what you must do:
click a tiny hamburger menu at far top right of browser. Hover over "bookmarks and lists" which expands another menu. Then click on "bookmark manager." That takes you to a screen with all your bookmarks. Excellent! Now I'm looking for a tiny + sign or some kind of obvious button somewhere where I can edit my folders. Nope. Screw you. It's in another tiny hamburger menu that's hard to see, click on that, now you can finally select "add new folder."
Is all that really necessary? Like, why? I'm well aware that you can add a folder from the "star" icon, but I don't always want to do that. This is a very obvious and common action that should take obvious and common steps to perform. This kind of thing is everywhere. Whoever the modern UI/UX people and product managers driving these decisions have completely lost the plot.
Even something that should be stupid easy like buying tickets to an effing baseball game is impossibly obnoxious - go to stubhub to buy ticket. Cool, I can do it as a guest. Where are my tickets now? Oh, I have to use stubhub app for (reasons) to do that. Have to use some kind of google or facebook account to access the app - fine. Whatever. You have me this far already and I already spent the money. View my tickets - oh, ok, I need to go back to my email (that I used when I bought the tickets on stubhub as a guest, not necessarily the one I logged into the stubhub app with) to find the code that allows me to view my ticket, which is typically a QR code scanned at the gate. Great! almost done. Nope. This QR code cannot be screenshot because it has a rotating one time token associated with it, so you gotta do this whole song and dance in line at the gate with an impatient crowd behind you.
How is a computer illiterate person supposed to navigate all of this? Technology is supposed to make things easier.
- baal80spam 2y agoWhat you say is true but there is a keyboard shortcut which makes it all much easier: Ctrl+D
- terribleperson 2y agoOf course, these standard and transferable keyboard shortcuts only seem to exist where a feature predates the current trend of garbage UI. I find that new features in software often don't even get a keyboard shortcut, or that the default set of shortcuts covers the entire keyboard so there's nowhere to bind anything else.
- JohnMakin 2y agoOk but how bout on Mac? I've been using a computer since before I could walk and I don't even have the slightest clue how to do that. Maybe I'm old and this stuff isn't designed for me, but as of writing this post I don't know how I'd know what that hotkey is without googling it. It's not even discoverable via a pop up on hover like most hotkeys are! Atrocious design. Almost maliciously bad.