Peeve #4 — Blogger

Peeve #5 — Prefacing Satire and Irony, coming soon.

The thoughts and opinions expressed below are estimated to be 48% my own.

I’d like to think of myself as a fairly affable guy. Yet whenever I express my pure hatred for the UI/UX designers behind Blogger, people laugh.

What is this joke I am not in on?

When I say I wish ill will on whoever designed that site be perpetually five cents short on their transactions whenever carrying loose change, I mean it. I want them to experience the embarrassment and bert-stared rejection of asking public randoms for change.

What sense did it make to have my profile options or settings or whatever else totally inaccessible from one page to the next? Seriously, who designed this site? How do I navigate it? I want to send them a strongly worded email with numerous misspellings and plentiful frowny faces. At least two frowny faces.

If I’m on my posts page, great, let me check my profile settings — nope.

If I’m writing a post and I want to check out my dashboard — nope.

If I’m on my page and want to see somebody else's — nope.

Did I save a draft or not? Let me — nope.

If I’m changing my color palette and want to see the changes in real-time — nope.

I’m tired of feeling like the only person in this world with any taste for proper user experience. It’s like cookies on mobile. No, PornHub, I do not want targetted ads alongside my granny milfs — Wait, there’s a steam sale?!

It’s Bad enough the website lags like Google Docs, though this definitely may be a me thing. I have to have a bad experience too? Look, website design is not easy. But take a moment to realize when you’re designing yours why so many have been using the same two layouts for 20+ years. Don’t try and fix what isn’t broken.

Bring back the flash player.