Why are web designers so fucking shit at their job?

[Dysnomia]

this is the correct answer

the modern web is designed primarily for tablets and phones, and for the lowest common denominator users (third world teenagers)

I've heard the largest number of Youtube users are in India. Most of them use phones. But nothing beats having a big screen and a keyboard/mouse to work with. In this case they want you to be so distracted by the feed at the bottom that you hop from video to video being served mucho ads in the process. My feedback to Youtube (that they don't give a fuck about anyway) is that it's too distracting and I can't engage properly with the video. I also added that because my eyesight is bad I had trouble reading the comments.

But I think they don't want us to read and write comments. Every second doing that is another second you aren't seeing more ads. I would not be surprised if they axe comments all together in the future or make them part of a premium experience that you have to pay to use both on the creator and viewer end.

 

[TheRetardKing]

This is what YouTube took away from us.

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[lol rascal]

This is what YouTube took away from us.

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Thanks for reminding me that YouTube comments/channel comments always have been and always will be shit.
I was thinking this exact same thing when I saw the most recent layout:

But I think they don't want us to read and write comments. Every second doing that is another second you aren't seeing more ads. I would not be surprised if they axe comments all together in the future or make them part of a premium experience that you have to pay to use both on the creator and viewer end.

Even if the comments are shit though, I would rather have them there than not at all. Obviously the best thing would be to clean up the bots and spam at least but I know better than to expect that lol.

 

[Apochrypha]

It would be a cool feature if we could choose which YouTube layout we want in the profile settings section. Like how we have themes/colors for our KF pages. But nah, we get shitty new versions we're forced to look at every couple of months or years.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Engineer's Dilemma. If they don't create work, then no more job. Microsoft Office's programmers have been doing this for 30 years now. What genuinely useful features is the program suite still lacking?

Honestly Office 2016 was and is peak and I'm still running it. Everything after feels... gross. It lacks soul. Innovation.

 

[the rat]

They are designed by pajeets who do zero research and use touchscreen chromebooks.
What were you expecting out of these street shitters?

CSS.

Everything beyond HTML 4.1 is just Flash-tier garbage, and "devs" roll around in it like pigs in shit.

CSS is fine, the billions of scripts running and poorly designed UI is not an issue with CSS or HTML 5 but because of the retarded people who use these tools.

Seriously you can make a website look and run great with such ease today but no, oversized pill shaped buttons that take almost the entire screen because we design for tablets only sorry. (and it's still shit for tablets anyway there is no fucking research done on the design of the UX)

Oh, and enjoy our 5 gorillion scripts that track you and cause a memory leak that we won't fix because unused RAM is wasted RAM. (and even if it didn't have a leak, 500mb and higher for a fucking website is absurd to me)

 

[HahaYes]

unused RAM is wasted RAM.

God this is one of the worst, most lazy mindsets to have ever developed and I hate it more every single time I hear it

 

[sadrefrigerator]

You are not the target customer. If you use a free product, you are not the customer, you are the product. If you use a desktop, you are not the intended product.

Despite what you may think, these product owners and designers put a lot of work into maximizing the profitability of views, and by extension, targeted ads. Everything change is ab tested to ensure it is an improvement over the previous Iteration. Your enjoyment is not a metric that is measured. If people like you stopped using the site, it would be a net gain for the company as you are likely a low value user.

The solution for you is simple. Just don't use YouTube. But you won't because you'd rather just complain and eat their shit than actually do anything meaningful.

 

[GNU Abyss]

God this is one of the worst, most lazy mindsets to have ever developed and I hate it more every single time I hear it

1. You must only use the program written by me.
2. It needs all your RAM because of my advanced productivity when coding.
3. Why are there programs other than my perfect program on your computer?
4. You should buy more RAM, technology progress line always go up.
5. GOTO 1

 

[the rat]

1. You must only use the program written by me.
2. It needs all your RAM because of my advanced productivity when coding.
3. Why are there programs other than my perfect program on your computer?
4. You should buy more RAM, technology progress line always go up.
5. GOTO 1

No but you see, we will give up the memory when another program needs it (this doesn't happen). You should be using all memory as possible anyway because it's there to be used and memory is CHEAP and FAST.

 

[Greenday87]

UI/UX designers give themselves work to stay employed.

 

[Niggerdeporter97]

If that's what they're targeting, they're not even doing a good job of that. Every fucking year, mobile UI elements get smaller and thinner and more cluttered and it gets harder to do basic stuff like seek through a video without accidentally clicking the mute or fullscreen buttons or whatever.

Everything web-related peaked in 2010-2014 and has been getting steadily worse ever since.

Most of the Fronted-Programmers nowadays are Indians, or the people who are too stupid to use a real mans language like C++

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Most of the Fronted-Programmers nowadays are Indians, or the people who are too stupid to use a real mans language like C++

Hell, I'm not even worried about the performance hit of high level languages.

These niggers are so incompetent they can't even design a touch interface that can be easily used with a finger anymore. I could do that with Visual fucking Basic.

 

[Niggerdeporter97]

Hell, I'm not even worried about the performance hit of high level languages.

These niggers are so incompetent they can't even design a touch interface that can be easily used with a finger anymore. I could do that with Visual fucking Basic.

The C++ thing is not about performance, but what I've seen in recent years is that the retards go into web-Dev and people who have a basic understanding of coding go into embedded and stuff like that. Web-Dev's are gonna be irrelevant real soon because Chat-GPT can do their job better than them

 

[The Tall Man]

India is the one hundred thirty-eighth smartest country in the world with an average IQ of 76.24.

 

[augment]

1. You must only use the program written by me.
2. It needs all your RAM because of my advanced productivity when coding.
3. Why are there programs other than my perfect program on your computer?
4. You should buy more RAM, technology progress line always go up.
5. GOTO 1

Go away Adobe, I don't need you in my life at all.

 

[Jang Joo]

There's a special place in hell for websites with faggot ass video players that follow you around as you scroll.
UO should block those by default as if they were ads.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I've given up on visual design, I'm more baffled by radio adverts at this point. The general vibe of casino ads these days is "play for $5 and quit haha so healthy! visit url.com/governmentalgamblinghotline". Okay, cool. Then there's MrGreen, which has this zinger of "Rule number one: What do you do if you think you're gambling too much?". Oh, visit htt- "Think about that for a second"... that's it? That's the ad? Not even doing the safe thing?

this is the correct answer

the modern web is designed primarily for tablets and phones, and for the lowest common denominator users (third world teenagers)

Even "actual gamers" are a minority. like 95% of games are played on mobile devices, and if you look at gaming discourse, a minority even give a shit whether the chick has boobas or manjaw.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I only use the "main websites" via 3rd party, privacy-focused portals. If these 3rd party portals are blocked by the "main websites", I don't use them at all. I can only recommend to do the same. Nothing on them is worth more than your freedom and dignity.