[masto]

Opened site. Chat popped up in the corner and started making sound effects. Closed site.

I guess it doesn't matter if a few people are annoyed, if the end result of these things is a new increase in conversions. But I wish "don't annoy people" was actually in the product requirements.

[LesZedCB]

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[ngngngng]

Just flag the comment

[jrockway]

Most "annoyance blocker" filterlists get these. In this case it's intercom.io which I block with Adguard's Annoyances lists: https://adguard.com/kb/general/ad-filtering/adguard-filters/

[satvikpendem]

I can't imagine using the internet without uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and a whole host (no pun intended) of filter lists.

[spaceman_2020]

Ah the trusted HN top comment that’s never about the product but a complaint about a minor marketing annoyance on the website.

[rideontime]

Still wondering about your friends' MegaCryptoPolis investments

[spaceman_2020]

What are you talking about?

[rideontime]

this obviously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899961

[spaceman_2020]

damn man, that was 2 years ago. I'm not sure what happened to the buyers but looking at MCP's twitter, they're still shipping product and seem to have a player base.

[rideontime]

you don't personally know those people anymore?

[samcheng]

uBlock Origin on Firefox hid that annoyance for me.