Yarn

Recent twts in reply to #sag6g7q

It really pisses me off that Firefox hides the scrollbar and only shows it when I actually scroll. What the bloody fuck is that bullshit!? It can be fixed in about:config by changing layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible to true as I found out by experimenting.

⤋ Read More

(Regarding hidden scroll bars and not knowing whether an area can be scrolled or not, here’s a conversation I had recently with a younger non-tech person:

  • Him: “Uhh, $older_person got stuck using Element (that Matrix client) on their phone again. Can you help?”
  • Me: “Yeah, I can take a look. He probably just tapped every item on the screen and ended up in some weird sub menu.” (A little bit of “that’s not how you do things” in my voice.)
  • Him: “Hm, isn’t that how you do it? How else would you know where to tap?”

Total bliss. That feeling of “oh, I know, that’s a button that I can click” is completely lost to newer generations of computer users. Modern UIs have so little indication of what kind of elements are shown on the screen and what you can do with them that users just … try every pixel. Tap here, swipe there, see what happens. Is this really a good way to do UIs? Am I just old and grumpy?)

⤋ Read More

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I fully agree with you. These are all big steps backwards. That contributes to why I hate using smartphones with a great passion. Unusable shit to me. To quote a mate: Auf den Scheiterhaufen mit diesen Möchtegerndesignerhampeln, die immer alles nur schlimmer machen. (Ok, that’s enough negativity for tonight. ;-))

⤋ Read More

Participate

Login to join in on this yarn.