[Wowfunhappy]

> In other words, the actual number is not important...what is important is real feedback that things are still happening and it's worth waiting.

And the inverse is that when progress bars are fake, they tell the user that everything is working even when it's not!

I MitM my SSL traffic. This causes Figma to fail to load documents in the most annoying way possible—it shows a progress bar that never stops moving, but becomes increasingly slow as it nears the end. I suspect the bar is programmed to never increase by more than half the remaining distance, or something like that.

After half an hour, I finally realized something had to be wrong, and I tried whitelisting figma.com in my proxy. The document loaded immediately.

If Figma hadn't lied to me with a fake progress bar, it would have saved so much time...

[saagarjha]

I've gotten real good at recognizing those kinds of progress bars; I think Window Explorer's search had one and it trained me to never trust them.

[jacobwilliamroy]

I recently found out that you can prepend your search with "name:" and windows search will only match against filenames which is the behavior most users expect by default and much faster than whatever nonsense windows explorer search normally does. Example:

    name:search-term

[vulcan01]

Windows Explorer, IIRC (I don't use Windows anymore), searches the content and title of most(?) files.

[TeMPOraL]

It's not just search when the progress bar appears, though. Also when trying to enumerate contents of a folder - e.g. when you're accessing a networked resource, or one that may not be viewable with your privileges. You then get this bullshit progress bar that speeds through the first 3/4, and asymptotically approaches 100%.

[eyelidlessness]

VSCode has a progress bar (well a throbber) that shows up when the language server has waited long enough that the UI should show some activity. But for my workflows it only shows up when something has gone wrong. So when I see it, it’s a good indicator to either restart TS server or reload the whole window. Not a great experience or solution!