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by Inityx 2036 days ago
I'm so sick and tired of seeing spinners that keep spinning, even after the process failed; this is an epidemic in web apps, where failures are often a bit too graceful and application state is silently corrupted.
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About 15 years ago a coworker had a spinner that was an animated gif, When I see people doing font awesome spinners it reminds me of that gif and I get just as angry.
Maybe there should also be a "seconds since last progress update" counter. In case of a download it gets reset every time a new packet arrives.