I was actually there because i was considering creating an account and wanted to check it out.

Then they pop one of those and lost me for ever!

  • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    851·
    11 months ago

    Hehe, denial of service for no reason beyond forced data collection is so quirky! Yeah, capitalism is squeezing the life out of modern culture, but in a fun way!

      • SharkAttak@kbin.social
        8·
        11 months ago

        What?! Some sites have been going the route of buying without an account for some time now… I hope people going “Hell nah” will make them rethink or shut down.

      • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        If this sort of thing only popped up when posting comments, then sure. If it’s to VIEW the damn site, that will only affect actual people.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        11 months ago

        Not sure how forced account creation would help with either of those. Both are only problems when they already have accounts.

          • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
            44·
            11 months ago

            So people that don’t want accounts should be forced to get an account because they might be a bot (that, notably, can’t do anything without an account) so they can be filtered out and denied an account that they didn’t want in the first place? Do you really not see the issue with what you’re saying?

      • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        61·
        11 months ago

        Bots can create accounts too. If it indeed was to prevent bots, they would just ask for a captcha test to continue browsing

    • beetus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      I think there are many others one could point to more accurately, including Yahoo who purchased and then resold tumblr.

      While Tumblr has made a lot of changes, some of which were walked back, they are still a well used and beloved site today. There are many now-dead or barely alive behemoth Internet companies that are better examples of “poster child for running a terrible Internet business” imo.

      • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        After they got rid of all the porn they last a vast majority of their traffic. Now they’re basically a Taylor Swift fan club catering to a very small but dedicated fan base barely enough to keep the lights on.

        They are husk of their former self.

  • HornyOnMain@fedia.io
    17·
    11 months ago

    You can block the elements with ublock and the page loads just fine, in case anyone wanted to look through Tumblr without an account

  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
    3·
    11 months ago

    I think you can block the elements with uBlock but I don’t really use that site past some search results leading to it.

  • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pubEnglish
    1110·
    11 months ago

    This is not an asshole design, this is the designers being assholes… WTF do you mean the best thing in my life ???.. So the best moment in my life is me signing up to a digital platform… 🤦‍♂️

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      What do you think asshole design means, exactly?

      • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pubEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        To me it’s because of the different roles of the job

        writing text on a mockup is usually the UX writer job, designing the interface is the UI designers job, if you go out of your way to write something like this, you know they’re doing it on purpose, or at least they know what they’re doing enough to push the user to act…

        Asshole design to me has to do with the functionality like for example, you click on a button and it does something else, or designing a fake button where the user clicks but it doesn’t do anything… It’s blank… Or a piece of artwork that’s offensive… Etc

        This is asshole writing ( it’s more direct ), so that’s why I said designers being assholes

        • hash0772@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Still asshole design though. Why do they need my personal information (in this case an email) for me to be able to see public posts?

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          It’s all serving the same base design, so the distinction seems a bit moot, imo.