#writing this here only because there's no feedback possible on that dumbass site

[kawaiiers]

This is the worst article I may have ever read. It lies right from the get go. First of all, of course, it's not easier to use, definitely not for me. But I'll get to that point.

"The website looks a bit different — it’s simpler; less cluttered; and, hopefully, easier to use." Yes, because it's "less cluttered" it's harder to use. It's harder to find something that was right there from the get go, in the open! Ctrl+F exists for a reason and now it's been rendered useless. I have no idea why on desktop, where You have all the space in the world, You would hide language changing and other useful links. I get doing it on a phone screen, it's tiny and hard to use, but a desktop screen is exactly the opposite. On desktop You can open multiple links at the same time, You can find links easily and there's enough space to show them. Hiding items just makes me click more and ergo lose more time!

"After three years of development" lol just lol

"The new design is the culmination of years of research, dozens of consultations with movement groups and volunteers, and thousands of points of feedback from Wikipedia readers." Who? Your mothers?

"The updated interface improves readability by reducing distraction and clutter and making pages easier to read" Oh, so people with bad ADHD, I guess. I don't see how a person with a normally functioning brain would have problems with a single sidebar.

"It introduces changes to the navigation and layout of the site, adds persistent elements such as a sticky header" Claim to make the site more user friendly, yet add a sticky element. HILARIOUS. Sticky elements are a million times more distracting than a normal sidebar xD Not to mention they're ugly and annoying all hell. But yes, it's more comfortable to use, ofc

"Our data shows that these changes improve usability, and save time currently spent in scrolling, searching, and navigating – all of which adds up to an easier and more modern reading experience, so that more people will love reading and contributing to Wikipedia." I HAVE made an account on wikipedia after the change indeed. To change the layout back to the good one. Using the new wikipedia every time i use someone else's computer or open it in incognito feels like being skinned. Slow, terrifying and painful.

"In the future, we plan on continuing to listen to our audiences and adapt and improve our experiences based on their needs" youtube talk. Translation: "we plan on making the site more hard to use because we love mocking our userbase"

Anyway modern UX drives me off the internet so I guess it's a good thing after all

[queen-sands]

Cross Them Lines - Part 3

Summary: Reader and Chris Evans have been childhood best friends. After a kiss shared between them, Chris is called away for some meetings with his publicists, leaving the reader to worry herself to death.

Pairing: Chris Evans x Reader

Warnings: ANGST. 

Part 1 Part 2

A/N: I promised you smut, but that’s gonna have to wait for a bit till we address all the angst…Your feedback is always welcome :) This fic has received so much positive reactions that I am fueled to write it!! THANK YOU! Also, if you want to be added to the tag list of this fic, let me know!

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An entire week went by – seven solid days – before I ever heard from him. It wasn’t like I was waiting by the phone hoping he’d call me. Okay, fine, maybe I did. A little bit. Not my proudest week, frankly. I never thought I would revert back to that girl who waited for a guy to call her. But this wasn’t some guy. This was Chris.

To be honest, I missed him. I missed our little bantering texts and random phone calls to share weird moments of our day. I missed my best friend.

The other stuff were locked in a dark corner of my mind. At least I tried to keep it that way and not think about how he had kissed me. I tried to not think about how good it had felt to kiss him back. I tried to not think about how he was now not talking to me after that same little kiss. Well, there was nothing little about that kiss. If we hadn’t been interrupted by his phone, that “little kiss” would have escalated to a whole lot more.

He had been up for it. I mean, I had physically felt against my butt how up for it he had been. And it wasn’t like I would have had the inclination nor the presence of mind to put a stop to it. It would have escalated and we both would have let it.

At this point though, I wasn’t sure whether to be annoyed by the interrupting phone call, or be grateful for it.

I mean, it was just a little kiss, and he had gone completely silent on me for a week. If we had actually had sex, he might have disappeared from my life forever or something.

Maybe he regretted it. Maybe he regretted kissing me and now has no clue how to reach out to me or face me. I could live with him regretting the kiss but I couldn’t live a life in which he wasn’t my best friend.

I stared at the phone on my desk. I should be staring at my computer, editing more of the manuscripts, but no, I stared at my stupid phone instead. At this rate, my distraction level was way too high that I was possibly at a risk of getting fired from my very comfortable job at the publishing firm.

I sighed in resignation and grabbed my phone, hating my pathetic excuse for will power.

Are you alive?

I typed it out fast and sent it just as quick, before I changed my mind.

It didn’t take even a minute for a reply to arrive. In a meeting with the publicists. Then right after, I was graced with a selfie taken from such a weird angle that he must have had his phone in his crotch to snap it secretly. I couldn’t help but laugh. He was such a dork. Wish I was with you, accompanied the selfie.

Still smiling, I typed back to him, without even thinking about it. Well come home dumbass! :P

 I was still smiling as I now switched to stare blindly at my desktop screen when Emily threw a paperclip right at me.

Startled, I glared at her. “Em, what the hell?”

She rolled her eyes at me like my anger was unwarranted. “Dude is your Chris back together with Elizabeth Olsen?”

“Uh, first of all, he is not my Chris,” I pointed out. Then I shrugged. “I don’t think he is dating anyone. I mean he would tell me if he was.” And I was sure of that. I mean, him dating Olsen was kept very much under wraps from the media but he’d still told me that they were in a relationship, however brief that had lasted. And that had been over a year ago. I remembered because he was supposed to spend Easter with me last year but had had to spend it with Elizabeth instead.

My PC beeped, indicating I’d just received an IM from Emily.

“Then what’s this?” she asked me.

She had sent a link, which I opened. It led to one of those gossip sites and I found myself wishing I had not opened it at all. There was Chris, looking dashing in that greyish blue t-shirt that brought out the blue in his eyes, wearing shades to hide his face from probably the paps. And there was Elizabeth Olsen, clinging to his arm. The title read, Rekindled Romance: Evans and Olsen back together?

There were more pictures to see, and like the masochist I am, I scrolled down to see it all. They clearly had no idea they were being photographed and seemed to just be strolling into some restaurant. There were pictures of them sitting inside, and laughing. And then there was one of Chris leaning down to kiss her.

Like he had kissed me only a week ago.

I felt like a fucking idiot. Chris was not texting because he was too busy cozying up to his ex. Well, clearly she was not his ex anymore. Here I was, thinking he was upset about our kiss that may have jeopardized our friendship and regretting his actions in shame, unable to face me, when he was actually not thinking about me at all.

What the fuck?

No, I mean, seriously! What the fuck was wrong with him? How dare he kiss me if he was seeing his famous gorgeous long legged blonde co-star? Why would he want to?

I almost picked up my phone to yell at him and ask him what the heck he was doing messing around with me, but I didn’t. For one, Emily was looking at me, waiting for a response to either confirm or deny Chris’ involvement with Olsen. And two, right now, the way emotions were running rampant within me, silence was my greatest defense.

I made up my mind, then and there. I was not going to ask him about it. I was not going to ever let him know that the kiss we had shared had affected me in any way...that I thought of it and had gotten myself upset over it. In fact, I won’t let him know I even thought about us at all. There was no us. There never could have been.

I was just an idiot who needed to be reminded of that. This new revelation about him and Olsen was just that – a painful, but necessary reminder.

He was fucking Chris Evans, and I was his childhood buddy. And that is all there is to it.

So why did I feel so angry? Why did I feel like I have been betrayed?

Pushing that aside, I looked at Emily. “I guess he is, huh. Oh well, good for him,” I said, and smiled.

Then I returned to my screen and focused on work. If my eyes teared, it was only because of the brightness of the screen and nothing more. Seriously.

What right did I have to be upset about him dating his co-star? What right did I have towards him?

We were just friends.

Fuck my life.

Part 4

[swrx-rant]

User eXperience - Windows Explorer

Microsoft, does it feel like I'm picking on you? Get the fuck over it, its nothing you don't deserve a hundred million times over. (once for each user you have pissed off with your shitty interface)

DRAG & DROP - onDragEnter over an EXE file... TURN THIS FUCKING SHIT OFF. DON'T DO A FUCKING THING UNLESS I FUCKING DROP IT THERE!!! DO NOT FREEZE OR LAG MY COMPUTER OR FORCE THE MOUSE TO STICK OVER THE FUCKING EXE INCREASING THE CHANCE OF AN ACCIDENTAL FUCKING DROP DUE TO SIGNAL LOSS/LOW BATTERY/A CHEAP-ASS WIRELESS MOUSE THAT RANDOMLY RELEASES AND RECLICKS MISFIRING EVENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOOLTIPS - 99% of the FUCKING TIME WE DO NOT WANT THESE FUCKING THINGS POPPED IN OUR FACE. THEY TEND TO COVER IMPORTANT INFORMATION LIKE FUCKING THE FILENAMES BELOW THE CURRENT ITEM TO PROVIDE US WITH REDUNDANT SHIT ALREADY VISIBLE ON THE SCREEN. They are useful 1% of the time and the UI should reflect that by USING A MODIFIER KEY TO SUMMON THEM!!! In other words, DON'T SHOW ME FUCKING TOOLTIPS UNLESS I'M HOLDING DOWN THE MOTHERFUCKING ALT KEY, ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!! That goes for Blizzard UI/WoW too. :/

STUPIDFETCH/PREFETCH - this is when your dog brings you the stick before you throw it. While you're driving. On the freeway. In the snow and ice. At night. With one headlight out. And no sleep for 36 hours. And your heater doesn't work. And the passenger window is broken.... I DON'T FUCKING WANT THE STICK RIGHT NOW, I WANT TRACTION ON THE FUCKING ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What DIPSHIT at Microsoft (sounds like they need those little blue pills) thought it was a good idea to WASTE ALL OF THE RAM ALL OF THE TIME? Seriously, some dumbass came up with a whitepaper that said unused resources were wasted. No, unused resources are RESERVED/PROTECTED/THERE-WHEN-NEEDED. OVERUSED RESOURCES ARE WASTED! AND SO WAS THE FUCKWAD THAT WROTE THE PAPER! Why should I slow my system, put unnecessary wear, and generally fuck up my user experience by having the computer load shit I am not currently using??? It doesn't fucking matter what I did last Tuesday, I expect 90% of system resources to be available TO THE ACTUAL PROGRAM/PROJECT I AM RUNNING!!! And the remaining 10% to keep the fucking system stable/responding.

How hard is it to just do what the fuck you are told and not try (badly) to guess what I might want next??? Saving 0.3 seconds on application load isn't worth taking 2-3x LONGER to fucking render!!! ALLOCATE MEMORY TO MY ACTUAL TASK, FUCK WHAT YOU THINK! Why doesn't the system give the RAM to Photoshop/GIMP/DAZ/Poser/Blender/Z-Brush/Maya/LightWave/3D Max/Carrara/Vue/Cinema4D/Bryce/or-whatever-the-fuck-high-system-requirement-program-I-am-USING!!!?? Hasn't anyone else noticed this? RAM says 0% free, 70% Available, 70% cached... and the program you are USING is CHOKING while it waits for the system to give it the fucking RAM it Requested/COMMITTED???? I'm watching the PAGE-FAULTS pile up while the system reports, "EVERYTHING'S FINE, NOT TO WORRY... WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY SOLITAIRE NOW¿ I'M GONNA LOAD THAT FOR YOU..." Is it illegal to fucking shoot a computer? Give it time, it will be.

I have watched this fucktarded process try to stuff 40GB of WoW data into 4GB of RAM. Windows, you have no fucking clue what bits the game needs, why don’t you WAIT FOR IT TO DECIDE/REQUEST!

SEARCH - HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO WRITE A USEFUL GODDAMNED SEARCH? (Don't ask Google, they sure as fuck don't know, no wonder I want to *bing* you jackasses upside the head) When I search for "desktop.ini" (to delete the useless fuckers), I do not want "desktop-utilities.ini", "desktop-widgets, incororated magical wanker with bluetooth file-syncing.ini", or anything the fuck else besides D E S K T O P . I N I -- why the fuck do I have to tell you "name:=" just to get expected behavior??? I didn't search for "desktop*.ini"! Users are smart enough to know how a fucking wildcard character works, too bad the OS isn't smart enough to know how a STRING LITERAL does! If you want to support more flexible searches, then why don't you limpdicks implement REGULAR EXPRESSION support on searches???????????? Then, if I wanted to search for "desktop.*\.ini" I would fucking tell you, otherwise assume I mean "desktop\.ini". The search worked better in Windows98 than it has in any version since... and it wasn't great back then either, it just hadn't become a total fuckup yet... that was before it started using crack. Can we just get the fucking thing to stop guessing and start fucking looking??

NETWORKING - on the subject of JUST FUCKING LOOK, perhaps we could get the network TO ACTUALLY FUCKING TRY TO CONNECT BEFORE IT SAYS IT COULDN'T??? Do you like being called limpdicks? You must, you did call yourselves "micro-soft". Do you think we're too stupid to notice the difference between the system trying to connect to a shared computer/network folder and it INSTANTLY bitching it can't? The only Denial of Service happening here is from you not letting me connect to my fucking internal network, you douchebags.

DEFRAG - what the fuck were you losers thinking??? First you replace the visual feedback of moving cluster blocks and replace it with a shitty progress bar (dropping from a 2D visual matrix to a single dimension), then you remove the feedback ENTIRELY... not even a generic progress bar or percentage or estimated completion time. Instead you fucktards just give us a message that says "please wait" with no indication that you are doing a fucking thing (even taskmanager can't see it half the fucking time). Then you take a goddamned nap for the next 36 hours, making no discernible progress. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT AND WHY THE FUCK IS IT EVEN TURNED ON? What shitbag thought the answer was "always running defrag in the background"??? That isn't a solution, its a fucking problem, a goddamned big one you numbshits! This had to come from the same dumbass that believes unused RAM is wasted, now we get the idea that if your HDD is GRINDING ALL THE TIME, it too is somehow wasted. FUCK. THAT. GUY. (please, somebody just shoot him between the eyes with a military grade paintball gun... and if you miss the *between* part, well, that's okay too) [yeah, yeah, "violence is never called for"... clearly you didn't read the script, cause the dramatic tension in this scene needs to break... its right there below line 7, it clearly says "and violence ensues"]

TILES - yes, let's make an interface that takes up extra space and doesn't provide anything useful... oh, and let's make it the FUCKING DEFAULT. And no matter how many times the user tells us they don't want this piece of shit view, we'll keep reverting to it, especially when they open a network folder or external device.

Seriously dipfucks, this could have been a useful, CUSTOMIZABLE view where the USER could decide what details they wanted to see, and HOW BIG THE TUMBNAIL/PREVIEW is, and what META-INFORMATION such as URLs could be attached and how they would be shown.

But instead they made a shitty, small preview/thumbnail, and piled on useless details that cannot be configured, leaving out USEFUL information wherever possible. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CUSTOM FUCKING WIDGET, LET THE DAMNED USER DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT, DON'T FORCE IT ON THEM. NO MEANS NO.

SETTINGS/CONTROL PANEL - WHY?! WHY DO YOU FUCKERS HAVE TO RENAME AND MOVE SETTINGS WITH EVERY FUCKING VERSION OF THE OS????? It was painful enough to find how to customize this shitty operating system the first time, now, like fucking walmart, I have to learn an entirely new store layout every fucking time I visit instead of finding the product/service/setting I'm looking for. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF! AND QUIT FUCKING HIDING SETTINGS TOO... things that could be configured in older versions of windows are now FUCKING HARDCODED LIKE THE FUCKTARDS AT APPLE DO! I don't wan't a single-button mouse or interface, morons, I WANT FULL FUCKING CONTROL OF EVERY SINGLE (reasonably distinct) ASPECT, THAT CAN BE *SAFELY* CONFIGURED. I don't like fucktarded "basic" settings that have only 1 or 2 options, I DEMAND FULL CONTROL OF THE FUCKING COMPUTER AND OPERATING SYSTEM I PAID FOR! If I don't like a how shitty UI/UX feature is implemented, I ought to be able to change it! I'm not asking to modify core stability and security, just the ability to use your product without wanting to kill myself. (or you... mostly you)

JUMP LISTS: PINNED ITEMS - why can't you fucking remember what was PINNED!? Especially for web-browsers! When I pin 10 websites, I EXPECT THEM TO BE THERE A WEEK FROM NOW, A MONTH FROM NOW, A DECADE FROM NOW!!! Instead, they disappear after just a couple of days because you keep OVERWRITING PINNED ITEMS with "new" items. TREAT THE FUCKING PINNED AS READ ONLY, WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT OTHER VISITED SITES, WHY SHOULD THEY TAKE PRECEDENCE!? Only the USER should be allowed to REMOVE PINS!!!!!!!! Its time you "microsoft dogs" learn what *STAY* means! But enough talk, HAVE AT YOU!