@grumpy_website@mastodon.online
Post #1256496
2026-04-16 16:54 UTC
Replies (11)
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@nCrazed@fd00.space 2026-04-16 17:12
@grumpy_website I'm afraid to click on things as it's prone to dropping me into "persist every keystroke" editing mode for things I have no intention of editing 😬
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@salaciouscrumb@infosec.exchange 2026-04-16 17:33
@grumpy_website Bonus for mobile. UI with a "hover over" just doesn't work on a touch screen.
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@JackTLadd@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 17:41
@grumpy_website I hate the Teams emote popup... 😒
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@trainguyrom@techhub.social 2026-04-16 18:01
@grumpy_website having assisted a number of "not computer people" with learning how to do something on the computer, o rapidly learned that anything that isn't a clearly defined button is greatly confusing to those who already struggle enough with computers. Any kind of interaction that requires a gesture, scroll, hover, swipe, long-press, and sometimes even right-click greatly increases the difficulty level of the interaction for many users (and makes it harder to perform on over a very slow remote connection or on a very slow system, as well as more likely to fail if it's accessed in a manner not initially anticipated) I'd honestly argue it's just bad UI practice at this point
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@Apfel@ieji.de 2026-04-16 18:10
@grumpy_website Have you tried turning off #JavaScript?
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-04-16 18:24
@grumpy_website I hate this so much. It's comletely inaccessible. I want desktop browsers to offer a mode that emulates a touch UI, where the site can't see mouse actions at all until you click. This also cuts off a huge *human* fingerprinting vector (the patterns of how you move your mouse while idle) which I wouldn't be surprised if adtech industry is exploiting already to correlate user identities even across entirely-anonymized browser contexts.
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@jab01701mid@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 18:28
@grumpy_website Menus lists that completely disappear if you dare move the mouse 1 pixel out of its box. I think most of the designers of this type of UX never used a real mouse on a computer in their lives, and they test it on their phone, which has no mouse.
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@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt 2026-04-16 21:25
@grumpy_website This sort of thing is incredibly disrespectful! Common, too. I regularly get bit by something just like it. Outlook Web will randomly misplace the font drop down from the mouseover-triggered formatting tools popup. There will just be a floating rectangle that says "Aptos" and blocks anything underneath it. The only way I've found to make the damn thing go away is to trigger the formatting tools popup again and hover over the font selector! That trick took me forever to figure out. 🙄 I have probably changed the font in my work email fewer than half a dozen times, yet somebody thought it was a good idea to add a little boobytrap that follows my cursor around as I write. Obnoxious!
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@henryk@chaos.social 2026-04-17 06:44
@grumpy_website The Netflix TV UI is the other way round: You have to constantly move the cursor around, lest it will start playing random video for the item that was highlighted longer than 1 second.
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@oscherler@tooting.ch 2026-04-17 10:54
@grumpy_website Moreover, an element getting under the mouse pointer because you’re scrolling, and it happened to pas there, should not count as hovering. @jalefkowit
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@ada@zoner.work 2026-04-16 17:14
@grumpy_website@mastodon.online or just don't violate the principle of least surprise and make the tooltip disappear immediately when the element is no longer hovered. like even windows ME got this right.