I can never remember if it's https://www.google.com/drive/ or https://drive.google.com/. For the longest time, the first link was just a splash advertisement for Drive with a big "Sign Up" button, and no clear way to actually get to my drive folder. GitHub has a similar issue, as do countless other websites that I use on a daily basis.
Digital Ocean is guilty of this. If you're on a phone, or a tablet, or any browser with a window narrower than about 700px, the page is so obsessed with selling Digital Ocean that in order for an existing customer to use an account you've already paid for, you have to click the hamburger menu, and then scroll... scroll... scroll... all the way down to the bottom of 75 options to find a sign-in button.
For a company that brands itself as being tech-forward and people-friendly, Digital Ocean should know better.
This is bad at even at 1000px. That’s 1/3rd of an xdr pro display and my most common window width now.
I thought it was just an ad blocker, but now I realize it's a "whatever DOM element I dislike" blocker.
I think e.g. Facebook does that and I’ve been unable to block annoying elements there.
Does anyone know how to make it work in that scenario?
That's a textbook example of poor UI.
On a mobile device, web display pixels (logical pixels) are not the same as physical pixels.
An iPhone SE's logical width is 320px.
An iPhone 8 is 375px.
An iPhone 8 Plus is 414 px.
An iPad is 768px.
700 is more like a wap feature phone
WAP phones were closer to 180px. I know because I built local WAP news and weather sites for them. Squeezing color radar maps into 180px was... interesting.
I always forget about this one. Thanks for ruining my afternoon.
The phone is not acting differently. The phone is acting according to the specification, which is that a pixel is 1/96th of an inch. This happens on all devices, not just phones.
From the spec:
> The absolute length units are fixed in relation to each other and anchored to some physical measurement. They are mainly useful when the output environment is known. The absolute units consist of the physical units (in, cm, mm, pt, pc, Q) and the visual angle unit (px):
> 1in = 2.54cm = 96px
No one ever opted to not sign up for a service because link wasn't visible enough. If I'm sufficiently interested to want to pay, then I can find the sign up link.
I sure hope that’s sarcasm... lack of a clear obvious signup path is literally the number one funnel exit.
Agree! imo is just a blatant reminder that they care more about getting new customers than servicing their existing customers.
In order to go to my actual dashboard, I have to click on "Login" > "Login with Twitch" and finally arrive at the dashboard which features prominent banners to upsell you on their premium offerings.
And if you accidentally click "Download" because that's the biggest button on the screen then you'll automatically download the application so make sure you're ready to go to your downloads list and cancel that.
I just gave up and started using a combination of OBS (open source) and StreamElements.
Employee retention can often cost much less than hiring and training a replacement, but nobody worries about that until the problem is too big to shrug off.
I don’t know where they expect this infinite pool of new users is coming from at this point.
Others get so caught up in their own usage habit that they forget others don't want to be prompted to login when they hit reply to a comment (which causes a page reload and they lose their place in the comments) but would rather login up front before commenting.
I can never remember if my stuff is in Google Drive or Google Docs.
When I have a .docx file on Google Drive - will I need the Google Drive App , the Google Docs app or should I just get the Microsoft Word mobile app?
Will we ask the question do I need Word if I have a file explorer?
To log in you have to go to the register/login page but that only brings you to a register page and the sign in page is actually a small link on that page to get to the point where you can enter your existing credentials to pay the fees they weren’t supposed to charge without explicit approval before they turn your package around to the originating country...
Americans, please use your USPS. They always have delivered on time, often early, and without so much clumsiness. Especially here in Canada—they work seamlessly with Canada Post.
UPS and FedEx have been mostly headaches.
UPS and FedEx only, and I mean only, deliver on-time OR later than promised. NEVER earlier than promised. Additionally while UPS and FedEx say that there is a daily cut off time, this is almost always meaningless in that the first day never counts towards time-in-transit (which ,in terms of days, is already way longer than necessary from the start).
They both act as if they were to occasionally deliver a ground package a day earlier it would keep people from using their outrageously priced 2-day and next day services. Ie 13$ ground vs $137 next day.
Additionally UPS and FedEx (in my case mainly FedEx) are the only two where a package (generally on Saturdays) will get marked as “recipient not home” when I’ll check my cameras to see they never even attempted delivery.
both of their “guaranteed” time in transit maps are not worth the pixels upon which they are rendered.
Just forward to another page, and don't bother your current users.