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Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes
by jchw 2mo ago
Should load much slower.
Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month.
Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at?
edit: Oh shoot! I forgot, too. This modal needs to also ensure there is absolutely no way to scroll. If you could scroll you might be able to accidentally get to the address bar of your browser to fix the URL to xcancel or even close the page, which isn't using the app as you are intended to do.
Also, it doesn't attempt to hijack the back button to give me stuff I clearly wanted to see before I leave the page.
A lot of work left to do here before it's a "real" website. Although, it has about as much substance as the average website so far, so good work on that.
- bee_rider 2mo ago> Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? This is the most annoying thing on the internet. There’s a site I’d like to use, but “try the app” takes up the entire page (and appears to be impossible to dismiss?). Actually, is there a way to permanently request the desktop site for all future visits to a domain on iOS? There is no reason to visit this full-page app advertisement.
- quercusa 2mo agoIf the site happens to be a discussion site that starts with 'R', clearing cookies will let you through for a while. In Brave, there's a setting to do so when you leave the page.
- yojo 2mo agoThey still haven’t removed “old.reddit.com”. Replace “www” with “old” on any reddit URL and enjoy a relic from when the internet was less ruined.
- inventor7777 2mo agoYes, but it now requires you to have an account.
- inigyou 2mo agoAnd sometimes even to verify with Persona.
- RattlesnakeJake 2mo agoThe issue is that they just started forcing sign-ins on Old Reddit, allegedly because it's easier for bots to scrape. The ability to casually/anonymously peek at a post that answers your question is getting more rare.
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- Micrococonut 2mo agohttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363... Here is an iOS safari extension that helps mitigate their bs. Just putting this out there for people.
- bee_rider 2mo agoNah, it isn’t Reddit. I actually removed Reddit from my search results once they stopped allowing me to use the old interface. It’s just some random job board that happens to be popular in my niche for whatever reason.
- jchw 2mo agoI'd recommend using Libredirect if you're on a Firefox-based mobile browser. It can configure redirects to alternate "frontends" that will serve you much more agreeable HTML (though because we live in hell, it will usually still involve antibotting out of sheer necessity. But I accept this.) For Reddit, my choice for now is safereddit. If I need to view a Reddit link on mobile and old Reddit is blocked as it sometimes is, I just swap the domain to safereddit.com. For Twitter, my choice has been xcancel for ages. I have no idea how that manages to stay up in spite of Twitter's hostility but it is a Nitter instance that seems to just work. You can also run these frontends yourself, too, but I assume it requires accounts. (edit: Also I hope it goes without saying that I don't really have any specific trust that my activity is necessarily more "private" with these frontends, although honestly if I was forced to bet I would have to bet that they are much more respectful to my privacy than Twitter or Reddit are. I just use them for functionality.) Good luck fellow traveler. If there was more to do in real life, I'd probably had thrown my phone into the ocean by now. I'm about halfway there in spite of the lack of many appealing third spaces.
- mey 2mo agoI have Firefox setup to not launch apps on android with permission. I don't have Instagram/Facebook/etc installed. Attempting to view a Instagram link on mobile is the most hostile thing in existence. You essentially can't, but it so aggressively routes you to the website based Google play store it's horrifying.
- pino83 2mo agoYou can have Firefox and struggle with apps BUT you visit Instagram? This is actually possible both in one person? Wow.
- mey 2mo agoPeople share links to Instagram with me. It isn't something I seek out myself.
- queenkjuul 2mo agoYou don't have a group chat where friends are posting memes and videos?
- pino83 2mo agoI decided to not use Facebook. I don't even want to argue whether you should be this guy or that guy. It's the mixture that excited me. :) If you are on Facebook, you don't need to care what browser to use and you don't need to struggle with apps. Either have your own opinion and try to be consistent, credible and reliable with its implementation. Or be a good Normie. Eat Facebook - but take it as it's served to you. Don't tell yourself and people around you a story of someone who cares, when in fact you use Facebook.
- queenkjuul 2mo agoDid you respond to the wrong comment? I don't use Facebook. I have a text message group chat with my friends where occasionally links to Instagram get posted. That's why i occasionally interact with Instagram, and why i asked if you have such a group chat
- inventor7777 2mo agoOn iOS Safari, tap the three stacked lines on the URL bar (depending on which Safari view you use), tap Website Settings, then you'll see a Request Desktop Website switch, which should persist for that domain.
- bee_rider 2mo agoI don’t know if this site did something tricky or if it is something about how I access it, but the switch doesn’t persist.
- moritzwarhier 2mo agoThere a two dropdown menu options for "request desktop" in my Safari, in that menu. Translations might be imprecise because I use German locale. But one is in a section called "Website actions", then there's another one in a section named "Website settings". I didn't even notice it myself until now. In earlier versions (before Liquid glass redesign I guess, which enlarged all dropdown paddings), the latter was called "always request Desktop site for xyz".
- getpokedagain 2mo agoIts always confusing to me since I'm already accesing it through an app.
- hinkley 2mo agoAnd don’t ever save the user’s “no” for next time. We need to needle them to use the app EVERY SINGLE TIME the visitor the website. I wonder sometimes how the team doing the website feels about being treated as second class. Or if it’s the same team and they have to hold their noses to work on it. The third dumbest smart person I had to work with obviously hated HTML and kept trying to get us to use a DSL instead. At least it wasn’t an in house one, but he had a couple other devs interested in his madness as well. But the two of us who were doing the bulk of the performance work and tricky bug fixes would have been absolutely sunk if we’d allowed that to happen. One of the worst things about React is trying to track back an HTML bug in someone else’s complex React project to the templates that are misbehaving together. The Grafana UI code is madness to debug.We would have been there very quickly and without the dev toolbox to help.
- jchw 2mo agoYouTube does something that makes me irate: it saves the abusive autoplay settings only locally per device. There is no way to set it in your account, so every time I log back in I have to disable autoplaying thumbnails and autoplay next video. Every. Single. Time. I think a lot of people get progressively worn down by things like this, but for me I actually get angrier each time it happens. It's probably good I no longer work at Google because I would probably feel genuinely enticed to find whoever is most responsible for this and engage in psychological warfare.
- hinkley 2mo agoYeah it’s definitely passive aggressive and those people must be stopped. But I think it’s sometimes by management design. Scrum makes it pretty easy to keep devs permanently off balance so they can’t think about how wrong what we are building is. Maybe that person really is a piece of work, but maybe they just have never had time to think about how dumb that decision was and go fix it. Similar to you, I’m glad I don’t know where Ken Schwaber lives or when he’s presenting because I’d probably call him a traitor to his stupid face.
- Paracompact 2mo agoI am now very interested in the second and first dumbest smart people you have worked with. You can't keep us hanging!
- f17428d27584 2mo agoNational cinema chain has a banner on their web site that says something like “film lovers prefer our app” so they manage to employ a little guilt / social proof as well. It’s such a small thing in the grand scheme of things but it’s just that final straw for me, someone made the decision to be this shitty to their users because they want to employ extra tracking/data collection / advertising in their app.
- dcminter 2mo agoeBay stops me from typing in the thing I want to search for so they can try to persuade me to use the app that I have expressed zero interest in for a decade or so. Guys, I'm trying to press money into your thieving little hands - why are you trying to stop me?
- summarybot 2mo agoReminds me of Austin Powers: 21! Blackjack, "Hit me!" "...but Austin!" "I also like to live, dangerously."
- kmoser 2mo agoThey see it as a win because you've still been using their site for a decade now, and every time they advertise their app there's still a non-zero chance you'll relent, but if they stop pushing their app, that chance drops to zero. The only winning move is not to play.
- smaudet 2mo agoAnd then uninstall the app...
- dcminter 2mo agoAh yes, I shall use that other auction site. Which was it again?
- bozhark 2mo agowhitehouse.gov
- yunnpp 2mo agoThese little easter eggs are why I read the comment section down to the Nth level of nesting.
- inigyou 2mo agoMake your own. You could even scrape auctions from eBay. You might think it's impossible but every other country seems to have a homegrown one, and not many people habitually go to eBay.
- heathrow83829 2mo agoWells Fargo went so far as to remove their best feature from their website: the Spending breakdown page! they now say go to the app but the app is far worse than the browser version was before they removed it. i might even stop using them just for this mess.
- philistine 2mo agoDO IT! They probably do not even consider the idea that they would lose customers due to UX. Lower rates, promotions, change of circumstances, but there probably isn't a checkmark in their loss of customer forms that include we made our user interface worse.
- dessimus 2mo agoMeh, WF already has their info, they just create 3 more accounts for every one that is closed.
- delecti 2mo agoOpening accounts like that might benefit the associate who gets credit for them, but money is the metric that actually counts. And if nothing else, leaving a company whose service sucks doesn't need to send a message, it's just moving so the service you receive improves.
- stickfigure 2mo agoYou should stop using Wells Fargo anyway. It's been what, nine months since their last national scandal? They're overdue.
- malfist 2mo agoYou can try to stop using Wells Fargo, but they won't let you. They'll just open more accounts for you
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- IAmBroom 2mo agoSome Fucking MBA (SFMBA) heard that apps build customer loyalty and increase eyeball time on their sites, so now their company needs an app. Repeat (without rinsing).
- abustamam 2mo agoHow is the Reddit mobile site worse than this obvious satirical site? I ended up using ublock to zap the annoying Reddit thing because it was annoying to keep going to old.reddit when people sent me links.
- unselect5917 2mo agoI know the Brave browser can be set to always request the desktop version of the site. Whether or not the website respects that or not may vary. And yes, on iOS. It's also effectively youtube premium for free as in beer. Lovely browser.
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- tnelsond4 2mo agoHave you ever noticed that nothing is actually ever better in the app. In the web browser I can change to desktop mode and access all the features they don't have in the app, also in the browser I can block ads.
- darumderum 2mo agoActually, it is. Your behavior can be tracked better, re-engagement through push notifications and ads. It's just not better for you. But aren't we all trying to maximize shareholder value anyway?
- asalahli 2mo agoAnd tabs! Browsers have tabs. None of the "apps" I use seem to comprehend that I might want to look at or do more than one thing at a time with them
- wombat-man 2mo agoWild that it is somehow worth it to stream video to every visitor on the hopes that it'll get them to stick around longer or see an ad in the video. That conversion number has to be crazy low.
- wlesieutre 2mo ago"We value your privacy! We and our 892 legitimate business partners use cookies to improve your experience."
- _trampeltier 2mo agoThe record I saw is more like 1892 partner
- alex1138 2mo ago"They're enforcing GDPR so here's malicious compliance and our own little template verbiage about how much we do actually 'care' about your privacy. Now click me to deny or blindly accept like you have with EVERY OTHER SITE you've visited since this morning"
- lxe 2mo agoFeedback taken. Will ask ai agents to make improvements.
- alsetmusic 2mo agoWhere are the third-party ads that interrupt the content I wasn’t able to read? And the popover telling me about singles on my area? Why haven’t I been offered a subscription to a newsletter so I can receive daily updates and offers to pay for additional services? You’re right. It’s a good start, but there’s still a lot to do.
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- sidewndr46 2mo agoNo, it definitely hijacked the back button
- eviks 2mo ago> there is absolutely no way to scroll Or, at the very least, at a widely different speed/acceleration that you're accustomed to
- TZubiri 2mo agoI don't think the goal is to capture all of the ways a website can break, but to capture all of the tropes that corporations add to websites in order to check boxes of what they feel a website should be based on imitation.
- alex1138 2mo agoTribunals at the Hague. (Not for this website, which is obviously a joke/telling commentary. I mean for real 'fucking websites'.)
- runlaszlorun 2mo agoWeb Crimes Tribunals
- ripe 2mo ago> this website is "better in the app" Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1174/ https://xkcd.com/1174/
- christophilus 2mo agoYeah. No spinners. No pulsing gray placeholders that sit there for minutes and then shift the content when they load. No 10GB video playing in the background. My laptop didn't even get hot or spin up the fans when I viewed this page.
- evandena 2mo agoElements that load slower than the rest of the content, so it bumps the links that you're trying to click down, and you click the wrong thing.
- gofreddygo 2mo agoEvery. SINGLE. Recipe website. Just search for anything like "egg omelette recipe". Click *any* link for example [1]. [1]: https://www.loveandlemons.com/omelette-recipe/ https://www.loveandlemons.com/omelette-recipe/
- inigyou 2mo agoto be fair that's the fault of your search engine choice because you are using a search engine that ignores websites that aren't like that.
- Perepiska 2mo agoYou forgot to mention condom^W Cloudflare between you and site. With "please tick checkbox to prove that you are a human" and "we add five minutes delay because you have old browser".
- inigyou 2mo agothere is code on that page to say you're definitely a bot and send you to https://unbotnet.me/ https://unbotnet.me/ but I've never seen it triggered.
- CodeMage 2mo agoDon't forget hijacking Ctrl+K or Ctrl+F to display their own search modal.
- aidenn0 2mo agoAlso needs a carousel that cycles in approximately 2/3 the time it takes me to read the item, with an arrow target small enough that I'm likely to miss the arrow and instead go to a random part of the page that I don't care about.
- avdwrks 2mo agoTo be fair, this website was from 2020... To your point, the web has gotten significantly more annoying to use since then.
- cpill 2mo agodon't forget subscribe to alerts. my favourite, coz I want some random website to push notify me everyone it does anything
- ColdStream 2mo agoI was about to say, by today's standards this site is actually fairly usable. That is depressing.