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Posted by bnc319 2 days ago

Why our website looks like an operating system(posthog.com)
673 points | 476 commentspage 9
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.
poolnoodle 1 day ago||
Better window management than macOS
nayuki 1 day ago||
> I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open

> You can multitask, open a few articles simultaneously, and move them around as you please.

> It has window snapping, keyboard shortcuts, and a bookmark app. It works as well as you’d expect an operating system to work in a browser.

> You can be reading the latest newsletter from Product for Engineers while watching a demo video in the corner and also playing Hedgehog Mode, the game.

Please stop that; you're creating the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect a second time. The fact that a web browser is an inner platform with respect to the bare-metal operating system is bad enough already.

> I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same favicon.

Nothing precludes you from declaring a different favicon per page or per author. That's a site design problem, not a browser software problem.

> It has [...] keyboard shortcuts

Yet, I can't even scroll your page using my usual keys of Up/Down/Space/Shift+Space/PgUp/PgDn. That is rather disrespectful to my preferences, before you throw in all that unnecessary inner window chrome.

mariocesar 1 day ago||
I open a few pages and then press Command+W, that close the tab :/ muscle memory.

However, I really enjoy it!

cyberjunkie 2 days ago||
Someone needs to make a KDE, XFCE theme of this.
mannyv 1 day ago||
Someone is trying to redesign the web experience for humans instead of googlebot? Huzzah!
albertmz 2 days ago||
Serious question. Could one not write a whole desktop environment in a lisp (clojurescript) and serve it as a website?
baddash 2 days ago|
How come you're asking that? Just curious
albertmz 1 day ago||
I want to find a good use for clojurescript. It would be cool to build a personal site with an OS theme. Additionally with enough extensibility it could become like emacs.
Spacemolte 1 day ago|
Trying to look at the changelog and the roadmap, and what a spectacularly shitty way this was made.

A progress bar that never seems to finish loading, and restarts whenever you go back to the page, and then suddenly after navigating around and going back to the same page, I get a slow loading html table without any progress indication.

What a great way to really piss off users.

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