I’ve become a big fan of hitting the slash key to focus the search box, escape to unfocus and also tab for filling out the suggested sentence while maintaining focus to the search box
Shash to search is a Vim keybind.
An easy mechanism to report bugs or other issues without leaving the page
Being able to make notes about users like you can on Mastodon.
I do this on discord
Little popups when I highlight any text. /s
Oh good lord I hate when they do that shit, ESPECIALLY online textbooks! I’m in uni right now and Jesus Christ it’s like every online textbook thinks I wanna make a comment when I highlight shit. Piracy is literally a better user experience
Basic static HTML version.
I was going to say “UI elements don’t jump around while the page loads in” but this is basically the same thing.
That shit’s been possible since like HTML 3.1… (not the right version but what ever) The fact it STILL happens is only proof in the amateur nature of most devs and/or their bosses…
News articles with dynamic scrolling that like, gradually reveal a graph and drip feed text. Just show me the fucking graph and text. Fuck.
Frankly, animations in general. Okay, for Web-based video games, maybe I get it. If your website is not a video game, why am I watching visual elements zing around? If I walked up to a bank or a grocery store and then had to stop and patiently wait by the door while some animation involving the store’s logo or bank played, how many customers would take that store seriously? Why are you doing it on your website? I don’t want fade-ins, fade-outs, buttons that slide in from the side, anything like that.
If they are nice and snappy they can be pretty and make the site feel polished I think. It just sucks when it takes half a second to close a popup or the side drawer
For any website that has some sort of search or filtering, a function to exclude items. A couple examples of this that have annoyed me enough to still remember them:
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Trying to set a filter for every GPU with more than 12GB of RAM, excluding the 3060. I had to instead select like two dozen chipsets manually.
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This is now fixed, but you didn’t used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam. This made more general tags useless, as people over-apply them. For example, CS2 Marvel Rivals, Black Desert, and DbD are all tagged as strategy games, so without the option to filter them out, it was way harder to browse.
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On Lemmy, there doesn’t seem to be any search operators, nonetheless ‘-’. Given how useless the search already is, and the fact that nothing gets indexed on the major search engines, finding anything on Lemmy is impossible.
This is now fixed, but you didn’t used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam.
Though Steam doesn’t have a single unified search interface. You’re probably referring to the most-comprehensive one, the one used on the Steam Store after you’ve performed a search. That one does have “exclude tag” functionality now. But there are a bunch more, which have varying levels of completeness in functionality. For example, the list that comes up on the store when you click on a sale. Or the list of games in the sidebar in your library. Or the list of games on the “shelf” in your library, in the large pane. They don’t all support the same criteria.
I have before commented to say that I wish that they’d unify all their search interfaces.
Omg I want this so badly for the xbox marketplace.
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Not consuming more than 10MB of RAM
I wish bank sites allowed more fine tuned control. Email me about my accounts if x amount of money moves and use my nicknames not the *number thing. Let me set my savings to only allow withdrawls to my checking and not allow atm access.
There’s always some awesome banking startups that have incredible features but then they get bought out after a few years.
At this point I almost want to work on an “open bank” concept and release it into the world for free so that new banks actually start off with great features. 😆
I, gasp, want regulation were the government demands a minimum level of capability bank software must do maybe based on a reference open source software that small banks could pretty much just use to save costs.
Yeah, that would be pretty fantastic. But at least in the US just take a look at ACH.
Give me a read only username and password. 😬
Not using JavaScript for something CSS can do.
How about an
:emptyCSS selector that works even if there’s some white space in the element’s inner HTML?
Reddit Nested/Threaded Comments — A tree-style comment system that visually nests replies, making conversation threads easier to follow in complex discussions.
Don’t most lemmy clients do that?
Yes? But I mean I would like sites like Discord and Twitter to sort discussions like that.
Ah, yeah. I don’t Discord or Twitter so wasn’t thinking about those. ArsTechnica would benefit as well. They still do the forum-style inline replies which is hard to follow.
RSS
Not requiring you to sign up to see the page contents.
This please, everywhere https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
I’m not really familiar with Firefox’s performance analysis tools, but fumbling around with the Network tab, with my browser cache off, I believe that that webpage, including all dependent files, had loaded in ~160ms, sans the favicon (which was another 24ms).
So many expensively-developed websites that aren’t even remotely as responsive.
FIDO2, Passkeys or whatever you want to call Webauthn.
Seriously I’m so burned out on glitchy forms that can’t even get the most basic username, password fields right and want to fight autocomplete all day, and I don’t want SMS-based 2FA or the absolute worst, “mAgIC LiNKs.” 🥴
Fuck.
Only the one server connection required for all content. At the very least, only your own servers. I will not whitelist any third party server another website can access. If you load some generic 3rd party script, your stuff does not exist. I don’t want any scripts running at all.
I’m a web developer that blocks Google and I push for this at work a lot — let’s serve our assets from our own server! — can’t stand the bullshit either.
