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  • Cloudmom Coletteelectrocutie@plush.city
    Jul 17, 2026, 7:48 AM

    gods and it doesn't help that these said same people want to remove all affordances

    swipe to open the menu, long tap to bring up the options, scream in rage to reveal the scroll bar. Every single pixel is intractable and there is no way to know where the limits of that interaction are, and if you miss something different happens

    Not to mention that on phones it just LIES to you. Animation starts... AH just kidding! The tap was a lie. Try again!

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  • Cloudmom Coletteelectrocutie@plush.city
    Jul 17, 2026, 7:56 AM

    here, here, here is a good example. I want to scroll one of the advanced interface mastodon columns using the keyboard. How do I do that?

    Well I need to focus that column! How do I know if I am focused on it? I don't.

    if I click on a post it opens that post. Don't want that, it focuses the post. Click the scroll bar? Does not focus the column and the page up and down keys do nothing.

    I have to find interstitial space and click THAT in order to focus the column. No indication it happened

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  • Cloudmom Coletteelectrocutie@plush.city
    Jul 17, 2026, 8:01 AM

    here have another one

    On the firefox debugger if I hover a variable it pops open the details of that variable. Cool, so far so good. If I try to bring my mouse into that detail area to explore it but I move A BIT too slow? Loses focus. I have to JERK my mouse down to see it. Useless, SO useless. I do FPS gaming and CAD for fun, this has gone from CAD to FPS and that is really REALLY bad. No UI should require me to move that fast

    Nor wait for it, though. Make speed not be a factor!

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