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This is a UX nightmare on mobile.

I always thought it would be a good action movie plot to follow what would happen if a malicious group intentionally disrupted these connections.

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This is a UX nightmare on mobile.

Just on everything. It adds zero usability or information, it just hinders reading.

Normally I just try to ignore things like this but now this got me wondering: I assume at some point someone convinced someone else this was a must-have, a deal was made, things were implemented, money spent. Would such person/group honestly believe this is better (and in what way) than a static site? Or would this rather be a more calculated move like being able to charge/earn more because it takes longer to implement?

There's also that aspect of building, or creating in general, where if you have more tools, which are easily accumulated on a computer but also in a workshop or creative studio, you'll tend to find a use for them.

I've often found myself in the midsts of a caffeine binging thinking: I've definitely over complicated things for myself here.

In a similar way that the job isn't finished in the workshop until you've cleaned up, overly complicating software has a long tail too.

That's a good point actually. I've had my fair share of complete overkill designs in the past myself. Once I learned the problems it creates years later in large codebases I actively try not to do that anymore though. And to fix the earlier mistakes. Which is also fun: it's not uncommon to fix issues and even implement new features, yet end up with a diff showing more lines deleted than added.

Why God why make a map and not let people actually move around it LIKE A MAP. Madness.

Because they want to sell the map for $250. Ludicrous

There are free JPG downloads of the map on the site, you can just open those in your favourite image viewer.

Not everything needs to be as ugly and functional as Paul Graham's website.

> This is a UX nightmare on mobile.

Not just on mobile.

you can download plain img from the end of the page https://submarine-cable-map-2021.telegeography.com/images/Su...

Or a nature documentary. It's only been in the past few years that we're more than a random fault or shark attack away from losing most of our bandwidth to the rest of the world...

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