Phosphor [&]

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Phosphor [&]@bazelgeuse-apologist4/4/2023, 8:56 PM

tbh I do not understand technical doohickey language. I cannot hold a discussion about the pros and cons of object-oriented or functional or whatever programming. I have a hard time understanding words like "data hydration," in part because my only exposure to them comes from long and dense articles that make me fall asleep.

however, I've found that I instinctively notice things like:

"why are we using a mile of CSS to move this thing five pixels to the right, surely that's going to break the moment someone resizes their window"
"please remember that some people will be browsing the site with keyboard controls and don't make tab jump them all the way out into narnia"
"it really sucks to have to scroll alllllll the way back to the top of the page whenever you paginate, it should move you back to the top automatically"
"can we Not make the user load 50 things they will never use"
"okay I see why it would be easier for us to hold onto the write permissions that the user's given us for their external account, but please consider: what if we fuck up or get hacked"

and idk, I like to think that counts for something!

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Wobblegong @wobblegong4/4/2023, 9:05 PM

It never occurred to me that web devs might get so deep into the esoterics exemplified by whatever "data hydration" is (a term I have never heard before today ty) that they forget things like "Did You Know some users are not browsing in widescreen resolution?"

but that sure would fucking explain a lot of the modern internet and why I want to remote-wipe so many websites out of existence so someone will be forced to build something THAT FUNCTIONS WITHOUT SUCKING LIKE THE PITILESS VACUUM OF SPACE

As a very tired user of websites, thank you for your service.

okay I see why it would be easier but please consider: what if we fuck up or get hacked

Insert tweet about "please pick a password that is 25 characters long minimum and contains 9+ special characters" four months later "your account was hacked!" "oh no, my password was bad?" "no they backdoored our servers"

\phi @phi4/4/2023, 9:09 PM

Programmingf and program design are separate skills, meowf! Altho knowing whaf can be done and how things work at teh software level can help in designing optimal programs, what the program itself entails as wew as the user experience are vee often a separate conversation fwom how it will actually be implemented, myeh. (wew, that's how it should bee anyway)

I wanted to add somethink else but I am blanking rn, prolly cuz I have a headache once again, hehe

Mochi @himochi4/4/2023, 9:49 PM

Thinking about how more websites than not will break visually if you view them at 90% zoom. (And a decent number of the ones that don't break do it by having browser zoom Literally Do Nothing.)

Also thinking about how Dappervolk uses a combination like 8 dropshadows in different directions behind avatar images to create a white outline around them (something which is both unnecessary AND breaks upon any zoom level other than default 100%)

Phosphor [&]@bazelgeuse-apologist4/5/2023, 4:30 AM

AW SHIT I forgot entirely about zoom, thank you for reminding me

adds this to the long list of things [Corporation] is not paying me to check that I'm gonna check anyway, because dangit, I HAVE MY PRIDE.

Mochi @himochi4/5/2023, 6:29 AM

It's wild because despite "responsive" website design being such a ~~excuse to make awful website redesigns~~ common thing lately, people still try to act like zoom levels are some kind of Special Modification that they don't need to adjust their website design to accommodate for. Which like... I get it when pet sites have zoom issues because they're already running on shoestring budgets, but huge corporations absolutely do not have this excuse, haha.

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