Gregory's Serverabsolutely losing my entire mind at this web site that decided to take their irritating distracting "chat with us" popups that no one ever asked for and make it *fucking bounce around like the fucking dvd logo* what the fuck is happening
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  @nasser CODEF is cool (e.g. https://wab.com/) but let's be honest: re-implementing Amiga vintage demos in a browser is a terrible waste of resources, better handled by more versatile emulators such as UAE.  @vegafjord fair enough, I just really dislike JS getting blamed for everything that's wrong with the web, even tho what's at fault are 80% advertisers and 20% "people" who don't understand users at all. I have a massively underoptimized blog that loads super quickly despite uselessly hydrating the entire text content on the page. It's never JS's fault.  @mitsunee @vegafjord @nasser most of the shit JS gets is due to it being enabled by default. just imagine a web that grew up with adblockers in every browser, and opt-in for cookies and JS… @sofia there wouldn't be a reason to block JS if it wasn't for advertisers and other such nonsense @mitsunee i disagree. just because i visit your website does not mean i wanna run whatever code you have there. i think this would be a good disincentive to use JS for no good reason, which is like 95% of those websites that start of blank before you enable js. a static-ass website, but they gotta use some framework shit. @sofia if you don't wanna run my code then don't visit the site? My sites aren't blank without JS either, that problem got solved literally years ago and was merely caused by people overusing ui libraries without a framework that let's them work at scale. In fact it was never a problem for any of *my* sites. Fuck off with your pointless accusations. @mitsunee i really didn't mean to accuse you in particulat of making shitty websites, sorry if that's how it came across. it was meant to be a generic "you". the blank website phenomenon is very much still a thing, and it's super annoying, and yeah, framework fans promised me that would go away years ago… running arbitrary code just seems like something that should have special permissions in a system that is stilll primarily used for documents. just like, say, camera access. @mitsunee i guess my feelinmg about frameworks are party motivated by me trying to and failing to understand React (i guess it has something to do with automatically synchronizing data and UI 🤷). and when the main notable effect of this arcane magic is breaking static websites then that's just a bit… disappointing… @thiagocsf if you are doing any sort of animation with JS you are doing it very very very wrong tho. JS is actually the thing that helps you get rid of this abomination by offering the close button...   @nasser  @gwenprime omfg yes. theyre clearly just checking the upper left hand corner. how do you go this far and not commit. even more unhinged.  Lmfao I sat through and watched the whole thing, you're totally right. I hope it gets stuck in the corner.  @gwenprime @nasser  @nasser jesus christ there's no way this can be real, for my own health I have to believe this is a joke @nasser @notthatready wow, someone really didn’t want to admit that the chatbot salesperson was completely lying about usage rates? “It can’t be me, it’s all of our users who are wrong!” @acdha @nasser chat bot board meeting next month: "alright folks, we're closing in our mission. We've already infected nearly every customer service website with these. Now some of them are even moving around the page. What's next in our mission to make the web completely unusable?" "what if you had to tweet to open the chat bot?" "no, make it open automatically, cover the page, and you have to tweet to close it." "why tweet? Automated phone trees and hold times for phone calls still exist!"  @nasser Is that pong? Or maybe they watched this too many times: https://youtu.be/QOtuX0jL85Y  @nasser im crying someone with a beard really said "the reason they're not engaging with this is because it's off in the corner of the screen" @nasser there's like a 50% chance a person who just needed a job suggested this as a joke and had to follow through with it @nasser "According to A/B testing, we got more engagement with the moving version," because people clicked on it by accident. That's science proving it's a good thing that people like.  @NeoFox @nasser no kidding, everyone watching the bouncing chatbot completely ignoring that the content itself looks like auto-written SEO content, it's not even REMOTELY correct, lol.(claims that you can't run software if a ".deb" source package isn't available, saying you need to use a windows emulator, etc)   @nasser "nobody's clicking on our bullshit nobody wants! they clearly must not see it." @nasser omgoodness, that is horrible - i wonder if they really expect that to be successful. @nasser I'd chat with HER but I know Quasimodo is on the other side of the green.  @nasser The "Kill Sticky" bookmarklet might help with that. I give it a click whenever there's annoying stuff in the page and it often makes it vanish. Details here:  @nasser this is the kind of thing that makes me immediately click the back button and never ever visit this site again. I hate, hate, hate live chat popups even when they don't bounce around the screen in the most annoying possible way.   Okay, that's funny 😹😹😹😹 I missed the bounce off the wall part though but... omg, someone APPROVED that UI/UX! 😹🥴😹🥴  @nasser this HAS to have been a joke from an annoyed web developer (“You want it even MORE in your face? FINE, how’s THIS fucking DVD-ass bouncing—”) —and the CEO or marketing person saw it and instantly approved it.  @nasser That the code only calculates the collision of the upper right corner with the edges of the viewport is especially sad!   @nasser Also not to mention that the contents of that website read like AI wrote them.  @nasser What you don't see is that Heather from sales actually sits there with a joystick steering it around @nasser I HATE HATE HATE those chat popups anyway. They're almost never useful (even when you want to buy the product and speak to an actual employee, they still mess up - Lenovo Outlet's did that for me, although their failure DID help me get a better machine with double the SSD space when I wasn't able to buy there and looked on ebay open box)   @nasser times like this I wish Hell existed so that the inventor of these popups would have an ironic punishment for eternity   @nasser @nasser I simply leave and avoid visiting this dreadful website in future 🤢🤮. I really wish a browser plugin such as #ublockorigin could block such an annoying floating chat window from appearing in the first place. @solicitor @nasser ublock origin probably does block it if you enable the lists in the "Annoyances" section. If it doesn't then you can report it on their github or on their subreddit https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-%22Report-a-filter-issue%22-form  @nasser@merveilles.town  @nasser I need to share this with a coworker tomorrow and then burn the evidence, because I feel like some of our clients would ask us to do this for them if they knew about its existence.  @nasser The only correct response to this is to click it, wait for an agent to respond, then complain. I mean, they do say they're available 24/7/365, why not maliciously comply?  @nasser@merveilles.town what the actual and absolutely mindblowing fuck  @nasser and they didn't even do that right! (Only the top left corner bounces, not the entire logo) @nasser Oh dear lord.And they wonder why so many of us consider am Ad Blocker as an essential element of modern web browsing.   @nasser this had me absolutely howling for some reason. But I too would be raging if I came across this in the wild. @nasser WTF is this garbage article anyway ?   @nasser Time to get Adguard. They have a whole filter dedicated to these sort of widgets and popups. I have the software the filters the whole system but it costs money. The browser extension is free. @nasser Geez how irritating. Has potential to put of new visitors to the site. @nasser but if you are interested in the total protection: @nasser *marketing voice*: "But the research by the company that owns the popup widget told me that conversions increase 50% with this widget, and the CMO is firing me unless I increase conversions by 50%"  @nasser I believe I paid $32 for a year. There are free software options out there I've tried but they generally are a pain in the ass to get working correctly. @nasser dont be rude those poor chatbots need enrichment somehow. let her have fun |
i take it all back javascript was a mistake