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by eitland 1005 days ago
Possibly even worse:

When the UX designer decided that greyed out buttons are terrible UX and bans them, so instead of disabling them (greying them out) you have to remove them if they aren't clickable.

Now, instead of being puzzled by why he can't click the button the user doesn't even know there is a button and has to start on by solving another puzzle first before solving the puzzle about how to enable the button.

PS: back in the day this could be solved by a tool tip or a paragraph in the help file. Today it seems such helpers are forbidden too.

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This here is why I think Bamboo is the worst CI tool ever written. Information hiding in a dev tool? Fuck everyone involved in that decision process.

I’ve used Cruisecontrol, which being first is uniformly awful by modern standards. But not lying about features awful. And spec files have partially vindicated some of their decisions. But only partially.