I happened to click a link that took me to the associated twitter X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it’s nothing new. I’ve got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What’s the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you’ve encountered recently?

  • katy ✨English
    25•4 months ago

    web 1.0 wasn’t flashy but it got the point across. bring it back.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•4 months ago

        That white text on gray background. What a design choice.

        Aesthetic > readability. The user can just select all on the page if they want to actually read it, right?

        Edit: It was pointed out to me that this brings up a random URL every time someone clicks it, so everybody is not seeing the same thing. Whoops.

        • arglebargleEnglish
          5•4 months ago

          Every time you click that link you will get a different web page… so…

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 months ago

            Oh, I see now. I’m dumb. I didn’t realize this just brings up random URLs to web 1.0 pages. Thanks for pointing that out!

            • arglebargleEnglish
              2•4 months ago

              Although if you click through a few of them, your comment is probably applicable!

        • @[email protected]English
          2•4 months ago

          I still prefer readability over aesthetics. There’s many people with disabilities that I hope you never get through what they do. If there’s something to be read that you can barely see, then what would be it’s value?

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 months ago

            I should have put a /s because the comment about aesthetic over readability was sarcastic. I was just joking, and I definitely agree with you.