Relatedly, many websites have nowhere to tap that doesn't do anything. If you try to select some text then want to tap away (to clear the copy/select all/etc popup) you can't do so without navigating away from the page or causing something else unwanted to happen.

This gets doubly frustrating when navigational elements don't contain actual anchor links. If you long-tap on mobile to open in a new tab, the browser decides you are selecting text and there is almost no way to dismiss the resulting copy/etc popup without tapping elsewhere on the page - which you cannot do without navigating elsewhere or otherwise causing an unwanted action.

The Reddit redesign is a classic example of this. Click or tap somewhere accidentally and you'll probably cause something annoying to happen. The most obvious is around the modal thread view.

Atlassian Jira is a good example of that too. It is safer to click on a minefield than a Jira page.

I can't stand this. When I have data entered into an app like that, it kind of feels like handling a live bomb. God forbid you palm the edge of the screen or fumble your phone.

Twitter is guilty of this as well

AppleNews on the iPad is like this. I literally can’t touch anything on the screen when reading news on it or I’ll accidentally “subscribe” to something, or open a new article, or worse, put an article into some weird 1/3rd size window that can’t be gotten rid of and sticks to the side of the screen. It’s fucking maddening.

I've noticed this with JIRA, there is not much space to click 'safely' to focus on the window

Even the blank spaces in jira can cause things to happen!

Accidentally click on some white space? Well too bad, we’ve closed whatever you’re looking at, even though you’re not in a modal. Oh and also, you’ll need to wait 30-seconds for this new page to load, and you can’t just bail out and go back a page, because your browser can’t hold the previous page in cache/memory properly because it’s some overly-complicated JS app.

The slowness is actually Jira's backend. Look at how long the network requests take.

Jira is basically a UX anti-goldmine... a single place to go to learn all the things NOT to do.

Azure DevOps is the same if not worse. I'm forever expanding or contracting the Description and Acceptance Criteria as there are no colour shades differentiating the sections - you have to watch the cursor change.

Then I wonder where the Description and Acceptance Criteria are for the next User Story, because it remembers that you (accidentally) contracted the Description for User Story X therefore you obviously don't want to see it for any others...

Netflix is the worst at this. Nearly every time I use it, the UI will piss me right off.

Since Office apps started putting an increasing number things in the title-bar (search, autosave, username, filename) there's limited dead space to use for traditional things like dragging and maximise / restore. I'm never sure where to 'grab' or double click - I don't know if I'm going to start a click-failure cascade if I do it in the arbitrarily, non-obviously 'wrong' place.

This is such an annoyance! And in dark mode, it is even harder to tell what is draggable titlebar versus yet another widgety thing shoved in there.

There is a youtube setting to disable that. Settings -> Playback and Performance -> inline playback.

And the autoplaying is them wallpapering over the issue that thumbnails are user chosen and now have no relevance to the actual video, right?