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by ghostpepper 2141 days ago
Does anyone else find it pretty obnoxious that this site changes the window title back and forth between "Jira is a microcosm of what’s broken in software development" and "(1) New Message!"?

Is this a bug? Who thought this was a good idea?
4 comments
ErikAugust 2141 days ago
That website is "a microcosm of what's broken" with websites.

Here is that content without that: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/32605

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SilasX 2141 days ago
Lol yes! The fixed floating header, the pop-up modal after a few seconds, the long load time for text/image content...
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riskymagemerge 2141 days ago
I know. The bot sucks!!! Sorry... it's my fault. My boss, Dan the author, just yelled at me and I turned it off :-)
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t0mbstone 2141 days ago
It's their little messaging thingy in the bottom right. You have to click the x to close the notification.

It's seriously obnoxious!

Also, as a side note, the whole article is written by a JIRA competitor. Totally not biased at all!

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chrisfosterelli 2141 days ago
This website is packed with reader hostility. A chat bot to recommend articles to me? Really?
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natchy 2141 days ago
They're using Drift, the little chat widget in the bottom.

I've had to build out tracking on marketing sites and we had to add a redundant, canonical page title to every page since 3rd party tools like drift change the <title> tag in the HTML to say New Message!!!!!

They do it so if you migrate to a new tab it tries to annoy you into going back.

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