Friday, August 28, 2015

Just Stop It. Website complaints

A little constructive feedback to web site designers.

Stop it. Please just stop it.

Website designers, stop adding crazy stuff and stop changing my defaults 'for' me:

  • Stop changing things that I can set up locally. Allow me to set the font size rather than fixing it to what you think is best. Don't change the scroll speed on me, I set it already the way that's easiest for me. I don't want to swipe to move down a paragraph but then you make it skip a page or two.
  • Stop it with all the moving images. just a few are OK. Well no not really. One is already almost too much.
  • Stop it with the audio. I'm listening to something else. Also, with multiple tabs that I move around, your audio is randomly starting when Im not on your tab. Then there's a frantic search for your goddam tab to kill with a vengeance and remember never to visit anything of yours again.


Tech rationalization: All these things also take up lots of memory and processing time on the local computer running them. Also, they waste my time.

So stop it.

PS IMDB, you're the worst. I love wasting my time on your site. But I don't want to waste away my time-wasting time on waiting for your candy crap ads to load. I want to see them immediately or move on to finding out what the movie was with the thing that that actor (who was in with the actress from that TV show (no not that one, the comedy, no the other more serious comedy) who had that thing happen to him. It was a couple years ago. I think it was a remake?

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