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[-] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh this is frustrating, there’s no way I can use this thing… my street number is in the ten-thousands 😩

[-] gwl 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wait, for real?

Honestly, gives me an excuse to make it more evil, how many digits?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

If you are looking for excuses to make it more evil make it accept Hawaiian style addresses with hyphens, like this one for a Walmart:

75-1015 Henry St, Kailua Kona, HI 96740

[-] gwl 8 points 1 week ago
[-] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Loads of people have letters in their house "number" part of the address, as well as a much smaller number of addresses including a ½.

[-] gwl 5 points 1 week ago

Tbh part of the point of Bad UX Battles is to highlight the things that people assume are true (but are not)

[-] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Lol yup. It is 5 digits, where the first 3 are the nearest cross street, and last 2 digits are house number.

So as an example, 21601 2nd ave, would be right at the intersection of 2nd ave and 216th street, while 21689 2nd ave would be closer to 2nd ave and 217th street. Super easy to navigate and find addresses when everything is a grid.

Please do, love your work.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

I know its about bad UI, but it is nearly impossible for me to even try anything there. There is a giant banner telling me to not input real data and the bottom half is white for some reason.

It looks like this:

[-] gwl 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's actually not mine at all, that's from codepen.io

I've also never seen it before, I think it's as simple as following the steps in "More Details" though

You've not disabled JavaScript or something? It's required for it to run

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

No, it runs fine. The banner is also only half the problem.

Why is the bottom half white? Lol

[-] gwl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've literally never seen it do that before or heard of it from anyone else either.

And the JavaScript is not actually used to render, it's just plain HTML with some handlers made in js

So I think it's that your computer is haunted

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