photog.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A place for your photos and banter. Photog first is our motto Please refer to the site rules before posting.

Administered by:

Server stats:

242
active users

#ui

11 posts10 participants3 posts today

I finally came around to writing up the details behind the CSS-only code listings I use on my blog. These listings wrap on page resize with line continuation markers, show scrollbars past a configurable minimum width, support native text selection without the line numbers being copied, and number lines in plain CSS without any JS involved. Have a look, the post is simultaneously a demo:

jaseg.de/blog/css-only-code-bl

#css#web#html

Oh FFS

I put in ONE WORD that's not English and you switch my whole interface to whatever country the word I put in is from.

How about ASKING ME!!

#UI FAIL.

This is happening more lately... 🤬

Why does the placeholder text on the desktop version of Messages (AKA iMessage) just say "iMessage". That's useless.

What is should contain is the name/handle of the person you're messaging, because it's very easy to make a mistake on that, given the (crappy) UI.

Get on it, $AAPL.

That is all.

#apple#design#UI

Husband @jbqueru tried KDE again, hated it again. I tried to fix his issue for him, only to find more bad design decisions along the way (added a greek input & lost my US english when I switched to it, because it didn't auto-add it).

KDE is just badly designed. No UI designer person was ever allowed to put their foot down to a developer and tell them how to do things. That's what KDE needs, and it's the same story since 1996. It's just clunky. Yuck.

Replied in thread

@_Davidsmith

#Apple sadly is entering another era of cutesy, useless frills and flair to draw attention away from successfully and quickly accomplishing any given user task, and instead towards the #UI itself. A failure of management and leadership.

Not a fan of these eras.

Things I'm digging with Mastodon 4.4:

- The ability to zoom in on media. Smooth and elegant

- The language button in the "write" box that lights up in yellow when another language has been automatically detected (I usually write in English or in French and regularly set it wrong first and have to edit the post - as I did on this one, for example)

- The audio controls

- The revamped mobile interface, though I probably won't use it much.

Kudos to the @Mastodon team!

Getting so freaking tired of mystery-meat toggle switches in #UI design.

The button says "kill all puppies."
Does clicking the button kill all puppies, or are all puppies being killed right now, and you desperately need to click the button to stop the puppy slaughter?

There is no way to know, because clicking the button just changes it to say "Stop killing puppies."

* Runs into the street, screaming

Just make it a checkbox, you absolute station wagons.

#ThisWorkedInTheEightiesAndYouHadToRuinItYouFreakingAwfulNerfHerders
#IAmSoDoneWithYouBufoons
#Rant

HELP!?!

I primarily use Mastodon via web app on PC or tablet. I've been doing this for years. However, there is one setting I would really like to use which I haven't been able to find. I don't think it exists yet, unfortunately…

Question: How do I disable the distracting notification symbol?

PS I do like notifications. Likes and boosts make me feel good 😇

PS2 But I also would like to browse the Fediverse without being distracted by an annoying blueboxed symbol 😢