“Show me the thing I was JUST looking at” is one of the most pervasive UX fails in modern computing send post
- Post scrolls out of view
- Notification vanishes
- Video autoplays into oblivion
- Hero carousels into oblivion
- Modal popup hides content mid-scroll
- Search gives different results for same input
- Search results update mid-click
- Second alert hides first alert
- “Continue watching” nowhere to be found
- Web page breaks the back button
- Android back button is •always• broken
- iOS doesn’t have a back button
- etc etc etc
SHOW ME THE THING I WAS ••JUST•• LOOKING AT
@inthehands the Explore tab on Mastodon. It's mildly infuriating, because the tab usually surfaces interesting posts, particularly stuff I've missed overnight.
It should pause until I ask it to refresh.