• chunes@lemmy.world
      20·
      6 days ago

      I was going to say “UI elements don’t jump around while the page loads in” but this is basically the same thing.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 days ago

        That shit’s been possible since like HTML 3.1… (not the right version but what ever) The fact it STILL happens is only proof in the amateur nature of most devs and/or their bosses…

    • phant@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 days ago

      News articles with dynamic scrolling that like, gradually reveal a graph and drip feed text. Just show me the fucking graph and text. Fuck.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        Frankly, animations in general. Okay, for Web-based video games, maybe I get it. If your website is not a video game, why am I watching visual elements zing around? If I walked up to a bank or a grocery store and then had to stop and patiently wait by the door while some animation involving the store’s logo or bank played, how many customers would take that store seriously? Why are you doing it on your website? I don’t want fade-ins, fade-outs, buttons that slide in from the side, anything like that.

        • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          If they are nice and snappy they can be pretty and make the site feel polished I think. It just sucks when it takes half a second to close a popup or the side drawer

  • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOP
    211·
    6 days ago

    Reddit Nested/Threaded Comments — A tree-style comment system that visually nests replies, making conversation threads easier to follow in complex discussions.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    I wish bank sites allowed more fine tuned control. Email me about my accounts if x amount of money moves and use my nicknames not the *number thing. Let me set my savings to only allow withdrawls to my checking and not allow atm access.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
      3·
      6 days ago

      There’s always some awesome banking startups that have incredible features but then they get bought out after a few years.

      At this point I almost want to work on an “open bank” concept and release it into the world for free so that new banks actually start off with great features. 😆

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I, gasp, want regulation were the government demands a minimum level of capability bank software must do maybe based on a reference open source software that small banks could pretty much just use to save costs.

  • Typewar@infosec.pub
    5·
    5 days ago

    I’ve become a big fan of hitting the slash key to focus the search box, escape to unfocus and also tab for filling out the suggested sentence while maintaining focus to the search box

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    For any website that has some sort of search or filtering, a function to exclude items. A couple examples of this that have annoyed me enough to still remember them:

    • Trying to set a filter for every GPU with more than 12GB of RAM, excluding the 3060. I had to instead select like two dozen chipsets manually.

    • This is now fixed, but you didn’t used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam. This made more general tags useless, as people over-apply them. For example, CS2 Marvel Rivals, Black Desert, and DbD are all tagged as strategy games, so without the option to filter them out, it was way harder to browse.

    • On Lemmy, there doesn’t seem to be any search operators, nonetheless ‘-’. Given how useless the search already is, and the fact that nothing gets indexed on the major search engines, finding anything on Lemmy is impossible.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      This is now fixed, but you didn’t used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam.

      Though Steam doesn’t have a single unified search interface. You’re probably referring to the most-comprehensive one, the one used on the Steam Store after you’ve performed a search. That one does have “exclude tag” functionality now. But there are a bunch more, which have varying levels of completeness in functionality. For example, the list that comes up on the store when you click on a sale. Or the list of games in the sidebar in your library. Or the list of games on the “shelf” in your library, in the large pane. They don’t all support the same criteria.

      I have before commented to say that I wish that they’d unify all their search interfaces.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I’m not really familiar with Firefox’s performance analysis tools, but fumbling around with the Network tab, with my browser cache off, I believe that that webpage, including all dependent files, had loaded in ~160ms, sans the favicon (which was another 24ms).

      So many expensively-developed websites that aren’t even remotely as responsive.

    • guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      5 days ago

      Oh good lord I hate when they do that shit, ESPECIALLY online textbooks! I’m in uni right now and Jesus Christ it’s like every online textbook thinks I wanna make a comment when I highlight shit. Piracy is literally a better user experience

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 days ago

    Only the one server connection required for all content. At the very least, only your own servers. I will not whitelist any third party server another website can access. If you load some generic 3rd party script, your stuff does not exist. I don’t want any scripts running at all.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
      2·
      6 days ago

      I’m a web developer that blocks Google and I push for this at work a lot — let’s serve our assets from our own server! — can’t stand the bullshit either.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    I don’t know if it’s a good idea for sites to do so, but I personally hate websites having some sort of timeout and then killing the session if they don’t detect activity. I never walk away from my system with it unlocked. Sometimes I need to do other things on another desktop, and I don’t want to be forced to manually click things to keep the session live. I will grant that probably, there are people who don’t do that, but this really is obnoxious.

    Also, very short timeouts on 2FA systems that use stuff like email. I’ve had antispam systems greylist authentication emails and that create problems with sites that have short timeouts.

    If your website is light-mode, also have a dark mode. And respect the user’s requested dark-mode setting from the browser via prefers-color-scheme. Don’t require them to use the site in some default mode to go through the login process and log in and explicitly set the thing in your internal account settings. That’s especially annoying for users who may have something like time-based modes on their system (I don’t, always want dark mode, but it’s extra obnoxious for them.)

    I think that the entire “m.” convention for forcing use of a mobile site — Wikipedia being a prominent example of this practice — is a terrible idea. It means that mobile users inadvertently send links to desktop users that force a mobile-mode page, which is virtually never desirable for the desktop users. I don’t know what the state-of-the-art here is in web dev, but I am very certain that there are better options than that, because lots of sites manage to have a mobile site without doing this. If you want to have a way to force mobile or force desktop mode in your URL, fine. But for God’s sake, don’t make that the default. I have spent more time manually stripping “m.” off Wikipedia URLs on discussion sites so as not to inconvenience desktop users when I happen to be using mobile, or stripping it out of URLs from mobile users when I’m on a desktop…and yes, there are extensions to help with this, but it really shouldn’t be a problem in the first place, I think.

    I like my browser’s back button to work. Some sites maintain session state that cause things to break when moving back to a prior page. Short of some obvious examples, where irrevocable changes to state have occurred (e.g. making a payment at a bank to someone) and it’s obviously not possible to back things out, I want to be able to use my browser’s features.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
      2·
      6 days ago

      I agree with all of this but I’ll add that email and SMS-based 2FA needs to disappear. It’s not secure, it’s time-consuming and we should be using Passkeys by now.

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
    5·
    6 days ago

    FIDO2, Passkeys or whatever you want to call Webauthn.

    Seriously I’m so burned out on glitchy forms that can’t even get the most basic username, password fields right and want to fight autocomplete all day, and I don’t want SMS-based 2FA or the absolute worst, “mAgIC LiNKs.” 🥴

    Fuck.