How Web Sites Turn-Off Prospective Members…
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There is nothing more annoying than web sites nipping at your heel:
"Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now"
Share yours. ( PS: Wanted to use "Piss-Off" in the topic title, but sometimes I bow to good taste ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzOcb2yE7Q&list=UUDwjxyTKmItwgqZT-1E4bjg
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The sites I find annoying are the ones with size 1000 register buttons, and size 1 sign in buttons.
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Those are annoying. But this particular website made me breakout into:
Within ~5 seconds!
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Join! join! Join!
now that you clicked join fill out this ten page questionaire and all fields are required.
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and they wondered why i laughed when registration took a sharp down turn.
i TOLD you it was a stupid idea. I told you i was implementing it under duress, I TOLD you it would cause you to lose registrations!
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But you didn't get it in writing, so you're fired.
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actually i did. My boss was laughing when he said to give the product team what they wanted, via paper mail so there's a paper trail.
we've both dealt with that team before
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Hot damn.
Fortunately F12 dev tools makes it easyish to nuke that.
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I believe even the “rabid” AdBlock haters ( @blakeyrat ?, @morbiuswilters ?) will admit that adding
www.windows8newsinfo.com/smf/Themes/default/cursor.js1 to AdBlock's personal filters to end that bs is OK. I usually keep AdBlock in very permissive mode, and only turn it loose on web sites which torque me off. Like that one.By the way, @Arantor : they use SMF…
1Even if they change that to a simple smiley face chasing my cursor, I don't want web sites fucking with my cursor for shits and giggles.
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Sadly I don't police which sites use SMF. Though I find it funny they're using the version that's shortly to be end-of-lifed...
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ISTM that just not going to that site is actually simpler.
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The sites I find annoying are the ones with size 1000 register buttons, and size 1 sign in buttons.
That at least has a semi-rational justification in that most users have only one computer and never clear their cookies or switch browsers. (On their phones, they of course use the native app, which provides a different sign-in UI.)
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No, the reason is that 95% of web designers are fucking morons.
Filed under: Web design, a growth sector with only 5% unemployment
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Sites that give a pop-up notice that you can use their app if you go there on a tablet are the ones that mainly bug me. No, I don’t want your bloody app — I’m only here the once, because Google told me that someone made a post on your site related to something I’m researching, and then you’ll probably never see me again. Why would I want an app specifically for your site cluttering up my device?
Now if the site would tell newly-registered users that there’s an app they could download, sure, I suppose some might find that useful. But visitors?
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The best thing, however is this:
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news: our forum is protected
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Yes, that's one of the more stupid things in SMF. I do believe that finally got fixed.
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Yes, that's one of the more stupid things in SMF. I do believe that finally got fixed.
Any reason that it shows how long the page took to create and the number of queries used? Surely only the developers would care about that.
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Sites that give a pop-up notice that you can use their app if you go there on a tablet are the ones that mainly bug me. No, I don’t want your bloody app — I’m only here the once, because Google told me that someone made a post on your site related to something I’m researching, and then you’ll probably never see me again. Why would I want an app specifically for your site cluttering up my device?
Worse, most sites that do this are news or forums. That means that their app is probably just a wrapper around a web browser, which makes it especially pointless.
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Any reason that it shows how long the page took to create and the number of queries used? Surely only the developers would care about that.
A lot of forums do that for some reason. I've seen it almost going back to 2000.
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Any reason that it shows how long the page took to create and the number of queries used? Surely only the developers would care about that.
It's an option you can enable. Can be useful for performance troubleshooting because it might be useful to gauge whether non-admins also generate more queries (they do, as it happens) and take longer (generally they do)
Quite why it should be such a generally available option though, I have no idea.
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their app is probably just a wrapper around a web browser, which makes it especially pointless.
But you’ve got to have an app else you don’t count! Doesn’t matter if it’s completely pointless, an app is better than no app!
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[xkcd:1174]
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why isnt that an embed macro for this site?
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Because of Rosie
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actually i did. My boss was laughing when he said to give the product team what they wanted, via paper mail so there's a paper trail.
we've both dealt with that team before
Tell them to avoid Discourse. They'll buy it then. That'll finish them.
Filed under: Revenge is a dish best served cold.
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[xkcd:1174]
I looked up 1147, went, "huh?" Then looked back at your post and wondered: "I don't remember when I went dyslexic..."
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There is nothing more annoying than web sites nipping at your heel:
"Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now, Join Now"
Share yours.
Annoying pop-over when about halfway through the first story - close for thirty days never seems to do as promised.
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what?! NO!
They might collapse but I'd get stuck supporting it!
NONONONONONONONONONO!
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Annoying pop-over when about halfway through the first story - close for thirty days never seems to do as promised.
TRWTF: Actually reading the site instead of getting the good stuff through RSS, like a normal person.
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Totally agree.
I also hate sites that when you try to get pricing for their products insist I fill out a contact form to get a quote. Some business antivirus packages do this.
I close the browser when I hit that point, and their product gets deleted from the shortlist.
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Fortunately F12 dev tools makes it easyish to nuke that.
No, fuck websites that do shit like that. Backspace works just as effectively, and helps to take away the incentive of people who thinks that is a good idea. I used to follow a blog pretty regularly, until they started popping an overlay on every page refresh to join their newsletter. It happened every, fucking, time you clicked a link or refreshed. I even tried signing up with my spam GMail address, it did not set a cookie or anything. Still popped every time. I just stopped going to their site, even though I could have easily blocked it.
Now I am a bit more permissible of minor stuff like that, but now it seems the trend is to render the popover as 3+ distinct div layers. Those annoying ForeSee CEA flyins and popovers are doing it. You want to know how my customer experience is? It is shitty when you interrupt my navigation to ask me how my experience is going.
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I smoke too much that just not going to that site is actually simpler.
I shit the mattress that just not going to that site is actually simpler.
I stole twelve melons that just not going to that site is actually simpler.
???
Filed under: It seems to me that's not a common abbreviation
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They might collapse but I'd get stuck supporting it!
If they collapse, there is nothing there to support. Or did I miss something?
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@Intercourse said:
You want to know how my customer experience is? It is shitty when you interrupt my navigation to ask me how my experience is going.
+1
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well the product they run is a ~$50M/yr tradeshow. so that's not going anywhere any time soon, even if the current members of the product team might be.
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Urban Dictionary: ISTM