and Twitter has terrible UX to boot. when looking at a thread there is no way to select text in other tweets because every tweet in the thread is a link to that tweet, and the bounding box covers...
and Twitter has terrible UX to boot. when looking at a thread there is no way to select text in other tweets because every tweet in the thread is a link to that tweet, and the bounding box covers the entire tweet
Actually you are misusing "#darkpattern" if you read the definition on the site: What your comments are describing is merely shitty design, not dark patterns which are more on the asshole design side.
Actually you are misusing "#darkpattern" if you read the definition on the site:
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn't mean to.
When you use the web, you don’t read every word on every page - you skim read and make assumptions. If a company wants to trick you into doing something, they can take advantage of this by making a page look like it is saying one thing when it is in fact saying another.
What your comments are describing is merely shitty design, not dark patterns which are more on the asshole design side.
Nah, the fact that the embedded Twitter posts are all readable without subscribing negates that theory. I see no reason to conclude malicious intent or hypocrisy here. It's just suboptimal website...
Nah, the fact that the embedded Twitter posts are all readable without subscribing negates that theory. I see no reason to conclude malicious intent or hypocrisy here. It's just suboptimal website design for the sake of simplifying posting: post once to Twitter instead of having to duplicate each post to the website.
#darkpattern: having all your site content only readable in a embedded Twitter feed
and Twitter has terrible UX to boot. when looking at a thread there is no way to select text in other tweets because every tweet in the thread is a link to that tweet, and the bounding box covers the entire tweet
Actually you are misusing "#darkpattern" if you read the definition on the site:
What your comments are describing is merely shitty design, not dark patterns which are more on the asshole design side.
I assume they want to coerce people into following their twitter account.
Nah, the fact that the embedded Twitter posts are all readable without subscribing negates that theory. I see no reason to conclude malicious intent or hypocrisy here. It's just suboptimal website design for the sake of simplifying posting: post once to Twitter instead of having to duplicate each post to the website.
Whoops 😅
#darkpattern: site title completely disappears when scrolling instead of just moving up
#darkpattern: site has breadcrumbs but no link to home page in said breadcrumbs