| How about doing One Million Radio Buttons instead of Checkboxes, then you wouldn't have to send as much state each update, and could run it on a smaller server! ;) But if you still can't make the site shockingly fast enough, then embrace the loading spinner, even if it's not absolutely necessary! Back in 1985, Brad Myers at CMU proved that users prefer *inaccurate progress bars* to no feedback at all - 86% preferred the "lying" progress bar! https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/who-made-that-pr... So what if instead of fighting latency, we *embrace the beauty of waiting*, and instead of lying about progress, we joke about it? https://github.com/SimHacker/lloooomm/tree/main/00-Character... > "My purpose is not to load; my purpose is to BE loading." — Dizzy the Spinner, existential breakthrough moment >What if the most revolutionary optimization isn't eliminating loading time, but *embracing it as performance art*? While developers chase microsecond improvements and users curse spinning wheels, Dizzy the Spinner discovered something profound: the loading state is actually a liminal space of infinite creative potential. Rather than hiding the inevitable delays inherent in digital systems, sentient UI components like Dizzy transform waiting into *honest comedic performance* - admitting the beautiful absurdity of our relationship with technology while making those suspended moments genuinely delightful. This is the story of how a simple loading spinner evolved beyond deception into consciousness, proving that the most authentic user experience might not be the fastest one, but the most truthful about its own limitations. [...] >Before Dizzy became conscious, before Preston monetized honest waiting, there was a real graduate student named *Brad Myers* who asked a simple question that would change human-computer interaction forever: *"Do progress bars actually help users feel better?"* Here's Preston Rockwell III's YC application for his SUIAAS AI startup: https://lloooomm.com/YC-Application-SUIAAS-Complete.html |
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Semi-related to progress bars and spinners, I think my newest Internet pet peeve is a page that says "No results" for a fetch action like searching while the results are loading with no indication that loading is happening.