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The new TweetDeck – is it a joke?
02 months ago
I’ve always used TweetDeck, and I always loved it. I liked its features – like support for longer tweets through deck.ly, translations, tweet shrinker etc. Then Twitter bought TweetDeck (so it seems). I have never in my life seen so many good features been removed. There is no longer support for the system tray, you have to keep it in your taskbar (which irritates me, it just makes me lose focus and clutters things up, why should a background app be in the taskbar anyway?). Then the option for choosing where the update popup should appear has been removed. Now it just opens in the middle of my second screen (which I don’t pay much attention to when I’m not chatting, that’s where I got my chat stuff like IRC, Skype etc). On another note on the popup, it suspiciously looks like some sort of IE frame or something, right-clicking it gives options to go back/forward and reload, and doing so completely breaks it.
Deck.ly support was removed, tweet shrinker was removed, translate was removed. A lot of other functions I’ve seen but never used are just not there anymore. I do understand that it seems like they started over from scratch, but at least add all the previous functionality before releasing a new version? At least release the new application as a alpha/beta until it got the same functionality as before, if it’s ever planned to be re-added.
Non-centered websites?
02 months ago
What’s the deal with these? I don’t know, maybe I’m the only one, but I have a hard time focusing on non-centered content. Like, a really hard time.
I guess it might work better on a 4:3 (example 1280×1024 resolution) screen where it isn’t very obvious and a big issue, and maybe the designers worked on a 4:3 screen when making the page. But, on a 24″ 16:9 (that’s 1920×1080 in resolution) widescreen (like I am using) it just looks horrible and it’s quite hard to concentrate on the text.
The last straw for me being annoyed with this was when the local newspaper, Skövde Nyheter, released their web edition recently. Here is a pic:
Skövde Nyheter
No centering at all. And look at that whitespace…
Update: I just discovered that my adblocker is messing up its centering. The page is actually centered, but I wonder how an adblocker can mess with the CSS like that to undo the centering…
Next up is Lerums Tidning, the local newspaper of my hometown:
Lerums Tidning
Also here you can see the page is waay to the left. And just look at that large chunk of whitespace left by it (one could assume that it’s a space for ads that is hidden because of previously mentioned adblocker, but I tested without adblocker too, it’s empty. The white sidebar is for ads though). The content isn’t all the way to the left though because of the sidebar menu, but still. The publishers other sites for other local newspapers they are in charge of are identical with the same issue.
You maybe have drawn the conclusion that these are smaller, local sites they didn’t spend very much money on the designing-part. I surely thought that was the case then BAM I noticed this:
SVT
This is the site of the Swedish national TV channel, SVT. You may think they can afford to get it centered, when you think about how they are forcing us to pay them because we own a TV. That page takes up roughly 50% of my monitor, 50% is whitespace.
In all of these designs, I’m more aware of the line happening at the middle of the page than aware of the content.
Am I alone being annoyed with this?
SMS verifications
02 years ago
I’ve seen lately that several online services requires you to give them your cell phone #, like Google does now.
Thing is, what if you don’t got any cell? Or don’t wanna give your cell phone # to websites? I rather not give my cell phone # to anyone except my friends… And if you have no cell (I know people without any), good luck getting a gmail account…
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