[at-fates-hands]

I would also add the inconsistency in how they are coded. Some allow pausing on the slide, others do not. Sometimes you can click the pagination buttons to get to the next slide, sometimes you can't. Some have arrows for moving to the next slide, some won't have pagination, and others are just a timed slide show - which is by far the worst.

It's a user's nightmare anytime you're presented with a carousels since you never know what functionality, if any you're going to get. I'm thinking this is why so many people simply discard them entirely now.

They've become the most useless web dressing ever.

[baddox]

I love the ones that advance slides on a timer regardless of user clicks, so you can manually advance from slide 1 to slide 2 and the timer will kick in 100ms later, advancing you to slide 3.

[sbarre]

that's just bad code though..

[baddox]

All code that outputs a bad user experience is bad code.

[rjuyal]

hahaha