I get unreasonably (okay, reasonably) upset when the simplest way to share an image is to take a screenshot of the image.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Not at all unreasonable imho!
My other favourite is screenshot > Google lens > select text ..
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Number one thing I hate is html/css/js used for anything that is not a website. Fucking stop it.
Also: stop fucking redefining hotkeys, and place a toggler for pages where is makes sense (Figma etc., basically a whole complex programs in a webpage)
The irony of this post being an image which I can't select as I read 😢
When I am on a phone, let me zoom on whatever the fuck I want. Unconditionally. Period. I won’t purchase shit off of your shitty site if I can’t see it. And you obviously have no clue how shitty my vision has gotten over the years. And for the love of anything good in the world, don’t wait till I’m zoomed in to pop a fucking model asking me if I want to join your list for 10% off. If I buy something, you’re gonna put me on your list, whether I like it or not. And I can’t stop you if I actually want a receipt. So just give me the discount. Or don’t. I don’t even fucking care anymore. Just fuck off. Fuck.
a fucking model
I wouldn't be so mad about that, unless it was a modal.
Touché
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I have a deep hatred for modern designs. Especially Material and Adwaita. There's SO. FUCKING. MUCH. WASTED. SPACE. Early 2000s Winamp on my 1024x768 monitor had more concise and legible information than Tidal and Spotify do on 1440p fullscreen. It legitimately pisses me off.
You're not wrong, as it's your personal subjective experience, which can't be wrong.
But the fact that it pisses you off implies that you don't understand the reason behind it.
We used to have information-dense UIs before because:
- devices used to have only large screens with lower resolution.
- devices were used primarily be specialists for productivity.
Which means programs had to fit a lot of stuff in very few pixels. Nowadays, vast majority of users are casual, the people of the land, fatfingering their tiny displays. They don't need a ton of buttons and sliders. In fact, a common user would get overwhelmed by all that, even on the desktop. And while a small amount of people would benefit from a denser UI for the same casual apps, it's usually not with the effort designing and implementing them.
[...] the people of the land
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fucking YES! just give me information dense uis please!!!!!!! The new intellij ui sucks and windows 11 too, for this reason
Win 11 is so bad. Right click sucks so bad now.
Win 10 start menu is the same. No I don't want to search the Internet for apps I would open a browser for that, I would like to use the apps on my PC.
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I think most people, including me, appreciate how it looks cleaner though. On Android I get you, they should allow custom themes, but for Linux you can easily swap to a more information dense one.
Well, you can switch to non-GTK applications but beyond that you can't really get more information density into apps that follow the Adwaita design language. You can't even really theme them.
You can absolutely use custom GTK themes. I used WhiteSur theme for a while before switching back to default
Doesn't that require extensions, which are only semi-supported?
No, just the GNOME Tweaks app. And extensions are fully supported in my experience, by the way
The problem with "cleanness" is that individual elements of a data structure more complex than a tiered list blend together without visual separation. It very quickly becomes illegible.
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It's very rare that holding alt while selecting text doesn't resolve this issue. Assuming you're on a computer. If you're not, good luck. Selecting text on phones and tables can be impossible in too many circumstances.
It’s very rare that holding alt while selecting text doesn’t resolve this issue.
But I'm not actually looking to select the text when I do this, I'm just stimming and the extra visual noise is annoying.
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Modern UI designers don’t have a fucking clue.
You’d think the first principle would be “don’t break the existing fucking UI”, but no.
Infinite scroll. Windows without toolbars. Replacing context menu with useless site-specific one. Forcing links to open in new or same tab, depriving the user of choice. Blocking text select. Blocking copy, as if that’s somehow going to stop people from stealing your shitty content. Fucking with the browser history.
And then there’s the constant reinventing of the wheel. How many times do we need to implement a fucking checkbox?
No lie, I’ve actually had designers come to me with a concept for “a visual indicator that shows the user how they are progressing through the page”.
What's wrong with infinite scroll?
- You want to navigate somewhere then navigate back? Haha, no.
- If it's not implemented properly, resources (images, videos, ads) don't get unloaded when they're no longer visible.
- Some fuckwit wannabe designers actually put the footer UNDER infinite scrolling pages.
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When you're dragging the scrollbar down, the page suddenly loads new content and you're lost.
When you're going through a long page and you want to come back to it later, you can't come back to where you left.
Plus if you want to find older content, you can't just skip to a page, you need to scroll through every goddamn item until you find what you're looking for.
Breaks the scroll bar, for starters.
As it's most often seen on news sites - where scrolling too far gives you another article - a handful of reasons.
One: there are frequently still links (think "about us" / "contact us" kind of pages) in the footer that you might need to access, which you can invariably now never reach, because as soon as they're in view they're replaced by more content.
Two: as the parent poster so accurately put it, "fucking with the browser history". It becomes entirely indeterminate whether the back button now returns to the previous site, or just goes back by one piece of content.
Three: the new content is almost certainly unrelated to the page I started on, and not of any interest to me.
This was just happening to me with Amazon. I wanted to get to the support link in the footer but they always loaded new stuff before I could click on it
Text that doesn't wrap and goes off screen. Scrollbars that shrink to a single pixel. Universal undo (open multiple Excel Windows and do stuff in all of them. When you undo it will follow your activity instead of being local to the window). Excels crappy copy.
No lie, I’ve actually had designers come to me with a concept for “a visual indicator that shows the user how they are progressing through the page”.
What the actual fuck, do these people actually use computers.
My biggest gripe is websites that take control of the browser C-f.
I mean, over the years the scroll bar has got less and less visible. Maybe these people don't even realise it exists.
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