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by bombela 439 days ago
and scrolling. and history.

I am finding myself afraid of clicking any link, anchor, or button in the fear of losing the current position, word wrapping or the current form inputs.

It's like I am being pavlov trained to be afraid of interacting with my computer.

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Mystery meat interaction is one of the worst parts of the modern web, and all too often it’s found in places where there is little to no user benefit to be had for the tradeoff and a plain old HTML link or button would’ve sufficed. I wish more devs would give thought to this kind of thing.