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I just accidentally clicked the "clear all" on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks

Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?

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[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 26 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
  • Stop removing the underline styling for links. It's not cool or sleek that you made things unintuitive to navigate by having the only indication be a slightly different text color, or a hover effect.
  • I don't like emoji in text interface output. I don't need cute little sparkle graphics and yellow smiley faces and lightning bolts and rocket ships to tell me the operation was successful, to say nothing of environments where emoji aren't supported and it's just broken.
  • Please stop trying to be cute or hip with your basic interface messaging. "We got you, we'll find those results you need. Just hang tight, OK?" "Oops, our bad, there was a little hiccup in the process..." It's unnecessary padding just like all the rounded corners everywhere. Exception if the entire app/site/whatever is specifically designed around being cute and friendly, but I see this all the time where it just feels out of place, disingenuous, and obnoxious.
  • Custom fonts and nonstandard characters in usernames are an abomination. Show your personality and creativity in your graphical avatar and your profile, I'm happy to see it there!
[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Back when I was a kid on MSN Messenger, a bunch of my friends had names like this:

☆꧁✬◦°˚°◦. ǟɮɮɨɛ .◦°˚°◦✬꧂☆

I disliked it even then, because it's not really about personal expression or style, it's more about wanting to stand out in other people's contact lists and look the most special and get the most attention.

It's an arms race that leads to a user list that's impossible to find anyone in, and when everyone is special then nobody is.