You want the website to be better because you want the service they are providing, but the tech is objectively crappy.
Ben Halpern
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What is a website that you visit regularly despite its technical quality and user experience?
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For not so long ago, diary.ru
It's old and horrible by today's standard, but my life and my heart had been there for 15 years.
Now I am building a website that could replace it. And it has a better UX, hopefully.
Amazon is surprisingly bad for a site with 50% of ecommerce share globally.
Also Google's lack of responsiveness and their new rounded corners everywhere (especially on the quick search autofill) are awful
Any of the Kinja websites: Deadspin, Lifehacker, Jezebel, The Root, etc. Kinja is their collective sign-in/commenting system and it wrecks havoc on any device that uses touch input. If I attempt to use autocorrect or autofill, it inserts what was typed AND what was autofilled. For example, if I type "stupod", then catch my mistake and put the cursor between the p and the o and select "stupid" from the word menu, it would then display "stupstupidod". Alternatively, if I am typing "approximately", and after typing "appr" I select the word from the menut, it displays "apprapproximately".
Finally, it takes forever to load and render comments and frequently crashes on yhreads greater than 100 comments.
Maybe not a true response. Because I don't want it to be better. Craig's List is pretty horrendous visually. But it still works pretty good and has an effective UI honestly. I really love Craig's List for their IDGAF mentality with being pretty. They definitely got that motherfuckingwebsite.com/ attitude.
apidock.com, it's extremely low to load :/
Twitch and Netflix are really my picks.
Really awful sites in so many ways, drowning you in pointless nonsense, and not even trying to help you find the content you want.
Twitch has really annoying garbage like detaching the video player to a small one when you try to navigate away from a stream you don't want to watch, Netflix e.g. autopauses regularly and then bugs out if you press space to continue instead of clicking the button.
Spirit Airlines. Ok actually I think I'm done with the airlines now fully.
Though their check in system on their website is horrible. It just randomly says if my confirmation number is right. Then if you finally can get checked in and print your boarding pass it will a lot of times not do anything. I have yet to ever receive my boarding pass in an email and you literally have to click print boarding pass on their site multiple times before it gives you something other than a blank page.
Their app is worse. From flat out not loading my fight details with no error message or literally seeing it throw a NullReferenceException, i have yet to ever print out my boarding pass from them without doing it at the airport.
TaskCluster for GitHub.
My bank has better UX than that nightmare of a CI service. I still haven't figured out how to store a secret so that it's only accessible to my repository.
LinkedIn, it has started to become like another Facebook, no offense.
LinkedIn by far. It's like a sensory overload everytime I visit. I usually forget what i was there for and just log out!
The web app and mobile app of my bank. I can't do without it, obviously but it's absolutely horrendous.
Facebook.
It is useful to keep in touch with friends and relatives, but the interface leaves much to be desired: lots of useless bloatware that bloats loading times and make everything slower (unless you have very good connection and CPU), the "notification" part that updates randomly: you see the little number for new notifications, you click on the "world", but there is nothing new (and the number disappears), the page is full of "sensitive areas" and you need to be careful with the mouse, otherwise you'll go to a page you did not want to and it will be almost impossible to come back to the post you was reading.
Reddit!!! If was not for the content I will never visit Reddit.
highscalability.com/
Any major video streaming website that still uses Flash.