Well...I did it...somehow...I did...<p>00:06:57<p>That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did...<p>Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites.<p>That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I got as I realized...
Love all the little details. Some favorites:<p>* Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match<p>* Tiny flag icons to select country<p>* The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad)<p>* number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time<p>* utterly ambiguous human verification instructions
For Canadians... I love this one:<p><pre><code> ENTER YOUR POSTAL CODE:
A1A1A1 <- ERR!
A1A 1A1 <- ERR!
A1A-1A1 YOU MAY PASS.
</code></pre>
Lazy %@$# front-end devs that can't reformat the input!
One past thread:<p><i>User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565</a> - July 2019 (255 comments)
03:51<p>I laughed out loud when I got to the bottom of the last page and didn't see checkboxes and realized the checkboxes were <i>above</i> the pictures and not below and had to scroll to the top.
I love the double indirection on the cookie dialog. You're used to the small, unhighlighted option being the one to click to reject cookies, but here the question is asked the other way around, making the big button the one you want to click instead.
My favorite part was the giant array of checked checkboxes and the instructions to only check three. I started mindlessly unchecking all of them and then accidentally hit the randomly placed "select all" checkbox once I got near the end. Legitimately made me laugh out loud at how absurd it was.
I appreciate this. I'm so sick of seeing links hit the top of HN that are utterly broken in landscape orientation because some stupid pop-up renders with the close button off-screen.
Every time you click the "help" button its just says "Please wait, there are X people in line." and just keeps going up every time.
This is interesting and potentially has value. To the end of deriving public value, is there source code or (non-)business logic that can provide an explanation to the choices made in developing this form?<p>Alternatively, and pessimistically, is this simply a successful marketing endeavour by a digital agency?
Actually, I have spend more time on some 'real' sign up pages...<p>At least this time, I was constantly laughing about the somewhat absurd combinations. But I am missing some of the harder parts, like forms not showing because they are only loaded when you disable your ad-blocker or forms working in specific browser versions only. However, that would probably make it too hard/realistic.<p>I love it!<p>PS: Just to give an example: The login form for the German Vorwerk website does not show in Firefox <a href="https://www.vorwerk.com/de/de/s/shop/login" rel="nofollow">https://www.vorwerk.com/de/de/s/shop/login</a> and when you opt to register, the button just disappears, but nothing else happens... And yes, you need that form to actually buy products.
I haven't laughed this much in a while, well done! (Or... the opposite of that?)<p>I was just a little disappointed when I clicked the back button and it actually worked instead of the game hijacking it and filling my tab history with garbage.
I found the country selection by black and white flag to be deliciously horrible. And the bow captcha was just hilarious. Kudos to the creators for the level of absurdity of this form.
(2018)<p><i>2 years ago Discussion</i>: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565</a>
4:52, but I had already given up on the first page once and then had to give it another go. Like others mentioned here, a lot of these are unfortunately common in the wild - the ones that always set me into a rage are placeholder texts that remain in the field as I type and the inability to tab through fields.
Thanks, I hate it (or love all the dark patterns in one place :) ). On mobile I have tried to go through the first form and rage quit after 3 minutes. How do you close that hurry up modal? You could only expand or lock it, but did not see how to close it.
See the Bad UI Battles Reddit about these kinds of patterns <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/</a>
00:02:53 I don't think it was bad, there are were some frustrating moments such as having to put one's age as well as birth date, uploading an image, and reading the password requirements.
“Select all checks” was my favourite. Half the time when I’m shown crosswalks I know they aren’t crosswalks but also know that I’m expected to click them, maybe, sometimes. So infuriating.
Drat! it took em: 00:09:23. That bloody accept terms and those checkmarks at the end got me good. Nice game and great way to get people to want to apply. Kudos to the creators.
I think I found a bug. When I put 4-Aug-1978 for birthdate, and 41 for age, it said age and birthday don't match.<p>It validated successfully on 42.<p>Although maybe that's part of the game?