• see cool video on front page
  • click
  • “Haha, fuck you, you’ve just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!”
  • redirected to the sponsorship info page
  • go back
  • video gone

why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo

  • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
    171·
    4 months ago

    They’re just doing what they’re paid to do.

    What they’re paid to do is increase ad exposure to drive as revenue and YT premium subscriptions.

    General public UX is a distant tertiary goal, in terms of what’s actually on the Jira board (or whatever they use).

      • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        You need to understand that most software engineers are treated like code monkeys these days, and very often get overruled by product people going “idgaf just do the thing I said in the ticket”.

        Source: am software engineer, and have been for about a decade and a half

        • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          I worked at Lowe’s and our method of searching for products was the same as a customer’s: the website.

          But the website’s search is designed to always return something.

          This means if you search for something we don’t have, it would just show you some random shit.

          For some reason this infuriated me. I was always apologizing to customers for our terrible UX.