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  1. FiXato @[email protected] ·
    CW: longish rant about a UX/UI pet peeve regarding dynamically loaded content, loss of scroll position and partial content, triggered by a visit to change.org

    Another #UX #PetPeeve rant: while I'm okay with content that's loaded gradually by scrolling or 'load more' links, such as comments, my current position in those should be remembered and navigating back and forth to that page should restore that same content. Or at least reduce the chance of navigating away from that dynamic content.
    Not as for example how change.org has implemented signing reasons (comments) on their site, where too long comments get a 'read more' link which load a different page to show the full comment instead of just loading the rest of the comment via xhr in-place.
    After reading that comment I:

    • now I have to use my back button,
    • wait for the comments section to get loaded again,
    • click on 'show all reasons' to load more than the 2 that automatically get shown,
    • scroll back myself to where I left off
    • see another comment with 'read more' and decide ot just give up and fuck off.

    #changeDotOrg #UI #UXFail #webDev #dearDeveloper #rant

    #ux #petpeeve #changedotorg #ui #uxfail #webdev
  2. FiXato @[email protected] ·

    I really wish programmes had more (or any) scriptable options, especially when it comes to sorting and filtering.
    Give me an advanced sorting option where I can write down the criteria in whatever arguments your current language requires, or expose the actual collection object via something like Lua or Python.

    This post inspired by wanting to hide images I already processed into collages from #PhotoscapeX's file browser (I can add ratings to them, but I can't sort by rating, or show only unrated items...), as well as Pokémon GO's Pokémon storage list having the boolean 'favourites' as a sort order, rather than a filter item...

    (Oh, and bonus points if I can colour code items in a list based on search params too... Again for #PokémonGO, I would love to for instance see all Pokemon of a single species, but then colour code the 4*, 3* and @special moves)

    #rant #development #dearDeveloper #featureRequest

    #featurerequest #deardeveloper #development #rant #pokémongo #photoscapex