[tiltowait]

As I scrolled down, one of the animations started and brought up a subscription modal. "Okay, that one would be enraging," I thought, delighted, as I waited for the animation to loop.

It didn't. It was the site's real subscription modal.

I feel like there's a lesson in there.

[driftnode]

The circular drag ones are genuinely worse than most of the joke submissions. At least the joke ones fail immediately. The knob UI works just well enough that you keep trying for 30 seconds before giving up.