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Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

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569 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 05 Jan 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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swyx ◴[05 Jan 25 02:41 UTC] No.42599320[source]▶
this is exactly the sort of idealistic post that appeals to HN and nobody else. i dont have a problem with that apart from when technologists try to take these "back to basics" stuff to shame the substacks and the company blogs out there that have to be more powered by economics than by personal passion.

its -obvious- things are mostly "better"/can be less "annoying" when money/resources are not a concern. i too would like to spend all my time in a world with no scarcity.

the engineering challenge is finding alignments where "better for reader" overlaps with "better for writer" - as google did with doubleclick back in the day.

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1. fancyfredbot ◴[06 Jan 25 14:36 UTC] No.42610867[source]▶
I mostly agree with this. Commercial websites probably should track engagement and try to increase it. They should probably use secure http. They probably should not care about supporting browsers without JS. If they need sign in then signing in with Google is useful. There's no harm in having buttons to share on social media if that will help you commercially.

Where I think the post hits on something real is the horrible UI patterns. Those floating bars, weird scroll windows, moving elements that follow you around the site. I don't believe these have been AB tested and shown to increase engagement. Those things are going to lose you customers. I genuinely don't understand why people do this.