Reddit
Also their new redesign is trash, one of the worst redesigns of all time, programmed by people who don't understand basic optimization.
Oh, it's *perfectly* designed. It's just that it wasn't designed with our best interest in mind, but the enemy's.
Note - before anyone says "take your pills, schitzo", here 'the enemy' is any entity that would harm you to achieve gain for themselves.
Reddit also ruined hobbyist communities by making the hobby itself a means by which users gained internet upcummies. Subreddits went from being discussion forums to places where users farm karma by showing off their equipment/gear (also driving consoomer culture) rather than actually using it for the intended purpose.
Ever since it was bought and monetized, fueling consoomer culture is the intended purpose.
My other pet peeves include:
- Commercial websites that dont have contact phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses listed. (At minimum on the contact us page, ideally general Phone and Email details in the top inch of every page) .
- Pages which don't have a "last updated: date" footer.
- Having your only means of initiating contact being a "contact us" form (half the time they dont even work).
- No option for product images in searches.
- No filters in searches with a database of over 50 products
- No list view for searches
- No option for 25, 50, 100 results per page
- Search filters which automatically apply when you click them, refreshing the page, assuming you couldn't possibly want to apply more than one.
I used to hate the instant message questions popups, but I have gotten good use from them recently so I tolerate them now.
So that I fit in with this thread: I also hate reddit for their
search and desktop comments functionality community.
That's no accident.
I used to work at an online store support center, and the whole point is to actively discourage you from using the phone to contact a human.
That costs them money, to pay the people to do what I did, and they would rather keep that profit, while pretending it's done for your convenience.
Also, I think I know what websites you're talking about with that garbage search engine, and you'd be amazed and pissed by who owns them.
Edit - that slow search engine is meant to be an advertisement. All you came for was an Arizona Cardinals hoodie. Now you have to also be shown hoop earrings, home plate minis, and anything else that starts with those letters. They're fueling impulse buys from someone who came to efficiency shop.