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Re:Car showed pop-up while driving by grishka on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:12PM (#37590871)
I'm religious about never, ever interrupting the user. It's unfortunate that way too many other software developers consider it acceptable. No, I don't care about your updates and onboarding and ToS changes, I opened your app with one concrete goal in mind and you're getting in my f***ing way. You aren't being helpful a tiniest bit.

If you need to inform the user about something, put a banner at the top of the screen. Or show an icon with a badge on it. Anything that doesn't require immediate attention and a context switch. Trust me, none of your stuff is so critical that the user needs to be interrupted.

Re:Car showed pop-up while driving by adrenvi on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:44PM (#37591113)
The web version of Twitter/X is an example of this. Way too many modals
Re:Car showed pop-up while driving by grishka on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:35PM (#37591476)
The Android app honestly feels like they have a daily quota of permissible user annoyance.