This should be etched into gold as a perfect description of life in 2025.

I think it's interesting that in 2005, the internet had a ton of popups and scammy ads that told you "you just won a free iPod!" and everyone knew that was a thing. There was even a gag about it in Scary Movie 3 (2003):

Yet you don't hear people complain about that as much today. It's like so much of the internet has been cordoned off into walled gardens that most users don't see pages out in the open.

One trick for the "back button doesn't work" is to right click it and select the page you want to go back to from that list.

Though I do wish back buttons worked on clicks rather than loads or anything a site can override with javascript. I hate the sites that treat scrolling to the next article as a new page. It trains me to not scroll to the next one, even if it looks interesting, because they fuck with my browser like that (even though I can work around it, fuck them for the attempt).

I once responded to one of those "you have items in your cart" emails that I received like a mere half hour after finishing browsing with a "fuck off", and a short while later somebody responded and said some things and ended with "same to you too"

I immediately replied and said oh wow a real person replied, don't take it personally, it was directed at the automatic message.

they started berating me and telling me that I should just unsubscribe if I don't want the emails (that I never fucking subscribed to in the first place???), and then deleted my account and banned me from the store, it seems. I tried to buy something over half a year later, but it was declined without reason, and support told me it was "flagged for fraud" and didn't elaborate

I'm sorry, I can't read this.

Can someone put it in greentext?

In the 90s, a lot of programmers spent a lot of time carefully optimizing everything, on the theory that every CPU cycle counted. And in the decades since, it's gotten easier than ever to write software, but the craft of writing great software has stalled compared to the ease of writing mediocre software. "Why shouldn't we block on a call to a remote service? Computers are so fast these days"

Oh my fuck, my work has a website and I hate it. There are multiple fields to fill out on a page, and every time you fill one field, the entire page automatically refreshes. I can’t just tab from field to field and fill things out - I have to fill out a field, wait for the refresh, click in the next field, fill it out, wait for the refresh, click in the next field…. until I’m done.

Next, for some reason everything is a floating window and there is no scroll outside of it. Which means that if I click the page wrong, the floating window moves, and I can’t move it back. I lose all progress because the only way to fix it is to refresh the site.

Then there’s the speed. At the end of the day, when everyone is using this site, it gets extremely slow. You’d think this would be a predictable issue that the company could be proactive about, yet every day, right when we’re itching the most to go home, every one of us experiences the dreaded lag. I hadn’t seen lag this bad since I played Sims 2 on an old computer.

"If you have resources, why shouldn't MY website be using 100% of it?" - web developers since 2017

That’s because in the Celeron 266-300A-350 days we overclockers were as gods! And if you had just moved from a modem connection to a university LAN connection like me, it was peak computer usage.

The way you describe performance then and now makes me wonder if you’re thinking mostly about running SUSE back then and if you’re talking about a Windows (Teams) machine now. I definitely remember things like the right-click menu taking forever to load sometimes on old windows & HDD based systems.

Using Linux on my work & home PCs now after being used to Windows on them first, they have that responsive feel back.

It's a two-fold curse - first, every single program these days isn't a stand-alone program, it's a glorified web browser. Hand-in-hand with that is the fact that, in order for these webpages-disguised-as-programs to behave in the way you normally expect a modern UI to act, it has to have five layers of javascript frameworks, each adding its own pile of cruft to the slagheap that is modern app design. It's horrendous and I hate it.

I came here to say this. Often times the pop ups are so bad that I just leave the site. Its almost never worth it

Not with a good ad and annoyances blocker. I reformatted my hard drive recently and the few pages I had to visit before installing that really opened my eyes to how bad it is, and how most people just live with it being. Hadn't experienced much of any of these the past several years, and it has gotten a lot worse since I did. I've noticed that most people I know who are not that tech-savvy have stopped going to websites or even trying anything online other than a very small selection of apps, and now that makes total sense.

It’s just literally an average online experience.

I am going to refute that claim as I don't see monitors falling out of windows everyday.
And I am pretty sure people are doing "online" stuff.

And the worst part is that the correct way works since HTML 1.0. Give the element a width and a height.

Oh, and those filters on the side? Forget it, they'll remove results you might actually care to view

Based Brazil has pix: select payment method, scan qr code with your bank app, pay.

i always look for the 'guest' checkout option. some merchants have it, and i'll choose them over somewhere like azn if the price is reasonably close.

I always ask AI Jill if she wants to fuck.

Yeah.... I tried that for a while. You don't go very far on modern internet with JS disabled

Mostly because of flash and shit speeds.

I can't see me doing shopping online in 2005

Please provide further reading to prove your point

yeah cause you cant get one at your local best buy anymore, but someone will certainly harrass you into trying to buy a smart TV

Not to mention the popup ads...

Likely because those sites are built by the same provider.

I work for a car dealership and all of the other dealerships of the same brand in our region use the same family of providers, We -used- to have the faces of real employees pop up on the chat thing until they got too busy to handle it

now its the same stock photo of a person who likely doesnt even exist

c/overemployed

I suppose they never specified it was supposed to be a good user experience?

Our target audience is people with cognitive disabilities who still have access to a credit card.

They've been around for over half a decade.

I will pay 6.95 to not order from Amaozn, fuck 'em

Amazon price mysteriously $7 higher

I like that I'm financially comfortable enough to pay for shipping and not give Bezos a cent.

Is it this?

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/detail