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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • I have to mention consent popovers anyway, because many of them don’t even comply to law. They should be better. None should ask for sharing data to over 50 or over 100 “partners”.

    I hate what I would label marketing or design websites with huge banners and non-telling marketing-speak text. I want information, and in a reasonable form and density. A huge banner [of happy people] with no relation to the product is wasted space. I want concise information, not evasive and positive-only speak.

    Article webpage where the next article follows. Even worse when there is no clear visual content separation to indicate it’s something different now.

    Auto-playing videos. Despite browser blocking them, evading that, or popover videos when scrolling, or videos embedded that have nothing to do with the article. They are atrocious.

    Overly verbose text. Overly verbose intro text and context descriptions. Not getting to the point. Not linking sources.

    Too small text. I have a web-browser setting for default font size. Don’t make it 40% of that for no reason.

    No dark mode. In the evenings, flashing me is always irritating, and I have to manually enable a dark mode hack.

    Wasted space for layout spacing. Looking pretty over usability or dense information.

    Zoom can be implemented good or bad - depending on what you increase in terms of font size, spacing, component spacing, etc.

    Contact - support or otherwise - only via shitty chatbot or web forms with too much required details. Give me a simple email address.

    Newsletter or subscribe requests. I’ll do it if I want to, never upon request. Worst when they show up before you consumed their content; could not even assess quality or interest.

    Shit DOM design, lack of selectors. Programmatically interfacing with a website through DOM can be very helpful. For CSS hacks, or content extraction. Like tracking Terms of Service or Privacy Policy, or customizing or fixing layouts. Lack of speaking DOM element classes or ids breaks those interfaces.








  • Whenever I try to argue with them, they tell me that I’ve been brainwashed by “Western propaganda”.

    I would ask “What makes you think so?” and go from there.

    Likely the only viable way is to guide them into realizing where their biases come from, or that they’re taking views over without questioning them.

    If you seemingly can’t change their opinions or views, and it burdens you, it’s fine to accept different or opposing views. You can either evade those topics completely, and if necessary be vocal and explicit about that, or physically leave [the room] if necessary, or make your opposition clear while also making it clear that you have no interest in discussing it further.




  • You can only see posts from people who have the same language setting as you.

    That is not correct.

    Posts are posted with a language set or with none set. In the language settings, the Lemmy UI (in the official frontend) warns that you should not unselect “undetermined” to not miss content on posts that do not have one set.

    For example, on this comment, I select EN. When I post in German, I select German.

    It’s not about display language settings. It’s about selected content languages, and the languages (or lack of one being set) on the content.

    Communities can limit which languages you can post in.

    On my comment, it shows which language it was posted in (/is labeled as).