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by laserDinosaur 2358 days ago
My personal pet-peeve is designers removing hyperlink underlines from everything. You can never tell what is a link and what it just plain text, sometimes hovering over it doesn't even activate any response. Links have underlines for a reason dammit.

Even right now above this edit text box, all the links at the top of hacker news (" psweber 8 minutes ago | parent | on: Neumorphism in User Interfaces ") have their underlines removed. Some of that text is links, some of it is not. How do you know which is which? Well you have to hover over them, one by one, to figure it out. It's a weird design trend that became such an annoying default rule.

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> designers removing hyperlink underlines from everything

That's like getting mad at a high school student for sending a open letter to parliament asking to made dictator and them saying yes. Designers shouldn't even be in a position to make that decision in the first place and browsers shouldn't listen if they do.

There’s a relatively hidden option to re-enable this on iOS, at least; the “Button Appearance” Accessibility setting.