SanguinePar

Oh yeah, I agree with all that!

Yeah, there was that brief period, maybe 4-6 years where each release had at least something exciting. I guess they’ve just run out of genuinely useful/innovative stuff to add.

Seconding Hermit, it’s a really useful tool for websites you visit often enough to wish they had an app.

I mostly use it for a football ⚽ forum I’m on, and it’s a better experience than opening my browser and going to the site each time, as there are some degrees of customisation of the experience.

Ugh.

Can you tap outside the popup to make it go away? Or maybe swipe it down? Agree that Back should be enough, how annoying!

I guess you could ask the question of someone (line manager most likely) - "Hey I saw that all these appointments are in working hours - does that mean I’m meant to take them during work time? How does it work?” - ie just play innocent and at least get clarity from them on what they understand it to mean.

In writing, ideally!

I loved the rear-mounted sensor on my old Pixel 2XL, as it could be configured to allow some swipe gestures too. I had mine set to open notifications on swipe down, which was really useful.

Likewise. I use Total, and I have 12 folders on my homescreen, each of which can be swiped up, down, left or right to open specific apps or run specific actions. So, 48 options without ever leaving the home screen :-)

I very rarely have to even open a folder, let alone the app drawer (in fact Total doesn’t really even seem to have a built in app drawer, although it exists somewhere in the background)

Nova in its heyday was just exceptional. It’s so sad to see it brought almost to its knees.

But, but, they assured us that that wasn’t going to happen? You mean they lied??

JFC, what a fall from grace for Nova. Sad to see.

Total Launcher does both of those. It’s massively customisable, although a bit daunting-looking in places. I love it though.

Fingers crossed you don’t get burned!

Isn’t there a risk that the number you reply to might be a premium rate number, and replying at all might land you a big charge?

I don’t get many of these types of messages, but I always just block them.

Yeah, that was a particularly egregious one! Triumph? Triumph?!? Ok then…

That’s really interesting, I didn’t realise the problem was that bad. I did the quiz at the bottom, tried to answer honestly and only got 5 out of 14 correct.

The purpose of this community is not to get things fixed, it’s to have a place to complain about things that are mildly irritating. For all you know, OP did raise a ticket. That doesn’t mean they can’t also complain about the issue here.

No, not at all, I’m not sure where you got that idea from.

What I’m talking about is when developers (or anyone else designing a public interface) utilise something which produces unintuitive results - in this case it’s the idea that when a user clicks in a box in the middle of the screen, the next thing that happens is that typed text appears somewhere other than where they clicked.

That’s not a bug, that’s just bad design.

I was sympathising with the OP who encountered this particular example, but also making fun of a general trend for this sort of thing, where companies and designers sometimes seem to think that regardless of what the user did, they should be railroaded into doing what the designer wants them to do.

It’s the wrong approach IMO, and leads to frustrating interactions with software. Or at least mildly irritating ones.

But don’t you know? The software developers know better than you do what you want. Resistance is futile. Comply citizen. Comply.

They don’t mind, as long as they can call you Betty.

“All” superlatives? ;-)