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Comment by zagrebian | Hacker News Reader

Interesting dark UI pattern on that website.

Video: https://twitter.com/simevidas/status/1524735892841275392

The term 'dark pattern' wrt to UX is meant to signal that the practice is morally dubious. In an app with a 'dark pattern', the designer uses affordances in the UI to nudge the user into taking action against their best interest (in favor of the company/product).

In this case this was just shitty handling of the zoom or something app-browser related - it doesn't seem to be trying to trick you into anything.

That’s not a dark UI pattern, that’s just a poorly made modal window

You can click around the popup and it closes it. So does pressing escape.

What is this "escape" of which you speak? Do I activate that by shaking my phone?

The popup is not present on mobile.

My window is big enough to see the whole modal, however it didn't show the bottom link, but when I opened it in a private window it did, but then when I closed and reopened my private browser it did not show again.

It's worse than a dark pattern, they are A/B testing a dark pattern.

The text of the website overflows outside the screen on mobile, and the main menu is split into two lines, which disturbs the design.

I doubt very much that this is intentional. The explanation that this is a bug on a site intended for desktop users with large screens is much more likely in my eyes, as it would be consistent with their other layout issues.

When I use my tiny MacBook Air, I simply resize websites to 75%, otherwise most of them have layout problems.

except my screen size is large and I can see the entire modal. Yes, there may be a screen size concern too, however the absence of the link at the bottom exists for some no matter the screen size.

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