This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
I was actually there because i was considering creating an account and wanted to check it out.
Then they pop one of those and lost me for ever!
Hehe, denial of service for no reason beyond forced data collection is so quirky! Yeah, capitalism is squeezing the life out of modern culture, but in a fun way!
We can't even browse products in some online shops anymore without a login. That's so infuriating.
What?! Some sites have been going the route of buying without an account for some time now.. I hope people going "Hell nah" will make them rethink or shut down.
Whoa whoa, you didn't do it?! But, it might be the best decision you make in your life!
Tumblr is the poster child for terrible ideas on how to run an internet business.
I think there are many others one could point to more accurately, including Yahoo who purchased and then resold tumblr.
While Tumblr has made a lot of changes, some of which were walked back, they are still a well used and beloved site today. There are many now-dead or barely alive behemoth Internet companies that are better examples of "poster child for running a terrible Internet business" imo.
After they got rid of all the porn they last a vast majority of their traffic. Now they're basically a Taylor Swift fan club catering to a very small but dedicated fan base barely enough to keep the lights on.
They are husk of their former self.
You can block the elements with ublock and the page loads just fine, in case anyone wanted to look through Tumblr without an account
I hate those
I think you can block the elements with uBlock but I don't really use that site past some search results leading to it.
This is not an asshole design, this is the designers being assholes.... WTF do you mean the best thing in my life ???.. So the best moment in my life is me signing up to a digital platform.. 🤦♂️
What do you think asshole design means, exactly?
To me it's because of the different roles of the job
writing text on a mockup is usually the UX writer job, designing the interface is the UI designers job, if you go out of your way to write something like this, you know they're doing it on purpose, or at least they know what they're doing enough to push the user to act..
Asshole design to me has to do with the functionality like for example, you click on a button and it does something else, or designing a fake button where the user clicks but it doesn't do anything.. It's blank.. Or a piece of artwork that's offensive.. Etc
This is asshole writing ( it's more direct ), so that's why I said designers being assholes
Still asshole design though. Why do they need my personal information (in this case an email) for me to be able to see public posts?
It's all serving the same base design, so the distinction seems a bit moot, imo.