@nasser
Developer: "But.... You said you wanted to include gamification in the new site design?!"

@nasser holy shit this is incredible

@nasser run

There needs to be a defederation equivalent for isolating websites like these …

@nasser the fact that they couldnt even bother to do the collision detection right is what gets me.

@nasser is this a WP site?

@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!”

@nasser @NoraReed you almost have to respect how fucking terrible it is.

Almost.

@nasser wow i give them points for trying to trigger nostalgia 🤣

@nasser
@20kqueso
oh I guess the modern updated hypnospace outlaw came out early

@nasser i haven’t seen anything this cursed-looking since popup windows were still a thing

@nasser I'm already pounding alt-f4

@nasser @kristinides That is user-adverse design.

@nasser “is it possible to learn this power?”
“Not from a Jedi…”

@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 @daedalus I remember in one of the Harry Potter books, Dumbledore magick'd up some drinks for the Dursley's and when they wouldn't drink them, the glasses started more frantically banging their heads. This website has the same vibes.

@nasser I’ve often wondered whatever happened to the folks that invented #pong.

@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.

@nasser this is beautifully cursed

@nasser someone brought this up as a joke in a meeting and noone said no to them.

@nasser everything old is new again

@nasser clearly, it's to prevent the article from burning your retinas

@nasser design and dementia are my passions

@nasser "nobody's clicking on our bullshit nobody wants! they clearly must not see it."

@nasser Also, she's 100% not a real person. She is 100% a bot. 💯%

@nasser oh God i love 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

@nasser noooooo

@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:
https://www.holburn.net/software/JavascriptCodeSnippets.html

@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.

@nasser

I...just...

@nasser omg it's amazing 🤣 I thought we'd already hit peak annoying on websites with chat bots, popups, banners, marquees, cookie questions, etc.

@nasser

Okay, that's funny 😹😹😹😹

I missed the bounce off the wall part though but... omg, someone APPROVED that UI/UX! 😹🥴😹🥴

@nasser@merveilles.town Ahahaha holy shit this is amazing

@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 welcome to popup ads from 20 yrs ago.

@nasser And I used to think those hovering videos on the news sites were bad. I take it all back.

@nasser that's unnecessarily awful

@nasser omg wtf are they thinking? Mind you, I do love that game where you bounce the ball to break the bricks.

@nasser Also not to mention that the contents of that website read like AI wrote them.

@nasser 😶

@nasser What you don't see is that Heather from sales actually sits there with a joystick steering it around

@nasser Boosted to shame the "experts" who set it to do that. Shee-ees!

@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 WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE O.o

@nasser times like this I wish Hell existed so that the inventor of these popups would have an ironic punishment for eternity

@nasser I’m stealing this idea! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@nasser This shit is beyond evil.

@nasser @rmondello I would be…

@nasser
Oh, the managemyhealth site is even more fun. The new chat component crashes and totally locks up the UI, so that got blocked pretty quick.

@nasser @hq1 That is what I do at a nightclub.

@nasser the 24/7/365 is what gets me. We don't have 365 weeks in the year...

@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.

@nasser

Haha, that’s hilarious. Pong chat. And available all day for….6.995352403 years

@nasser haha, this is amazing! Amazingly bad.

@nasser that is possibly the worst design idea I've ever seen

@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 This is an example of peak web design. It's all downhill from here.

@nasser "Hey Developer, can you make this more obnoxious?"

@nasser honestly, i don't know how i feel about this since it's funny but annoying at the same time

@nasser you will enjoy bloat websites with ads,
you will sing up for everything,
you will love popups

@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 Web Designers from Hell

@nasser They probably thought this was cooler in their mind or smthin LMFAO

@nasser
I suppose it’s not surprising that people who think this is acceptable web design are also incapable of getting to the fracking point.

@nasser I'm amazed that they did this first, instead of porn sites.

@nasser 😂​

@nasser web designers are enemies of the people

@nasser this had me absolutely howling for some reason. But I too would be raging if I came across this in the wild.

@nasser immediately block that site

@nasser WTF is this garbage article anyway ?
*- "While most of the workforce today ****prefer**** Windows on their desktop"* Well that's debatable lol ! 🤣
*- "there is a small but growing minority that prefers Linux over Windows, Mac OS ****and other operating systems****"* like what ? OS2 or the AS400 ?
*- "Linux users are ****paranoid**** about safety"* You heard it ? You sick paranoid degenerates that you are...
- *"making it ****impossible**** to run a proprietary software"*

@nasser Amazing and evil at the same time :comfyevil:

@nasser This must be quite a horrible experience interacting with the website!

@nasser It bounces by its left edge 🙈

@nasser What the everlasting fuck

@nasser hold on, adding an item to my list of things I'll outlaw when I'm president

@nasser

I have to filter this post. My eyes can only bleed so much.

@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
Your lag of ad, script and cookie blocker add-ons is irritating..

@nasser Geez how irritating. Has potential to put of new visitors to the site.
Shame there isn't a browser plugin to remove these.

@deceptivepatterns does this count? :hehe_lizard:

@nasser but if you are interested in the total protection:

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-windows/overview.html

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-mac/overview.html

@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 this made my day

@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

Late stage corporate internet... Thank you, I hate it. 🥴

@nasser dont be rude those poor chatbots need enrichment somehow. let her have fun

@nasser Well, it's too bad their website is broken, looks like like they might have had useful information. Time to look elsewhere.

@nasser I'm sorry. I can't even be mad. This is over the top ridiculous. 🤡

@nasser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0QtAiiXQ