Why our website looks like an operating system

Posted by bnc319 2 days ago

Why our website looks like an operating system(posthog.com)

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SamDc73 1 day ago|

It's funny that it shows the word "PostHog" as a "Possible spelling mistake found." in my browser ...

tempodox 1 day ago||

I minimized ( _ ) the window on that page, and now I can’t find it any more. I expected some obvious place where you can un-minimize a window.

fusslo 1 day ago|

just tried it myself, The minimize animation went to the upper right, and I found the window again in the little icon that looks like a calendar. The same icon dances when you minimize a window, if you are looking at it. It also shows a count of the number of open windows.

I never woulda looked at that icon without observing the animation

faefox 1 day ago||

The overall look and feel is very BeOS and that's just about the highest compliment a piece of software can receive. :)

aitchnyu 1 day ago||

First paragraph made me think, does any app declare diffent favicons based on page type (settings, projects) and status (new project, project in red alert) etc?

paulmooreparks 1 day ago||

It doesn't look like an "operating system." It looks like a graphical shell. I guess those terms have become a bit interchangeable, and I'm being pedantic.

bovinecomputer 1 day ago||

software apps inc did this concept a while ago with a real vintage mac emulator and i think it was executed really well! probably makes more sense for a company like software apps inc to do it vs posthog imo https://software.inc/

1718627440 1 day ago||

They made the effort, that the menu is accessible by the keyboard, but then forgot to let it trigger the hover effect, so that it is like navigating blindly.

acka 1 day ago||

- I open the link in a mobile browser.

- A cookie banner fills 95% of the screen.

- No accept, deny, customize, or close button in sight, and no, I am not going to switch to desktop mode or adjust my text size to something submicroscopic just to dismiss a stupid cookie banner.

Sorry guys, but that means a hard pass from me. Let the downvotes rain, but it is what it is.

vasuadari 1 day ago||

Their https://posthog.com/404 is blue screen of death :)

egypturnash 2 days ago|

It looks like one but it doesn't work like one, the hitbox for the right-hand window resize area completely overlaps the hitbox for the scrollbar for me.

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