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>Uhm, no. It just means that people are hovering over links with their mouse. in my case every single time was by accident whilst moving the mouse around, off

>Uhm, no. It just means that people are hovering over links with their mouse. in my case every single time was by accident whilst moving the mouse around, off of other text I was trying to read. frankly, its bloody annoying it covered the text i was reading the search for yet another "disable" setting begins....

rootlocus 8y ago
The popup has a little gear icon in the bottom right. You can disable it from there.
- freeone3000 8y ago
  They put a small click button on the edge of a hover control? really?
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  - always_good 8y ago
    I just tested it and it's trivial to click. Are you actually having difficulty or just pretending it's hard so you can be condescending? I think the best place for these controls are usually on the feature itself. I don't want to have to search in some independent preferences UI every I want to see if something can be tweaked, but it makes sense to offer it there as well.
- SeanMacConMara 8y ago
  cheers!
jessriedel 8y ago
> the search for yet another "disable" setting begins.... Your inability to figure out how to disable it was already counted as success! > the rates of disabling the feature are negligibly low — a strong indicator that people find it useful. https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikipedia-page-previews-738cddac7a21 https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/w...
- therealdrag0 8y ago
  > To ensure that these rates were not artificially low due to usability issues, we also confirmed in a separate qualitative test that users were indeed able to find and operate the disable functionality if they desired to disable Page previews. (From their AB article)
mygo 8y ago
“We thought the floating pop-up billboard showing you a preview of what’s inside when you glance at a building was a great feature as you walk down times square” — bad UX designers in 2070

rootlocus 8y ago

The popup has a little gear icon in the bottom right. You can disable it from there.

freeone3000 8y ago
They put a small click button on the edge of a hover control? really?
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
- always_good 8y ago
  I just tested it and it's trivial to click. Are you actually having difficulty or just pretending it's hard so you can be condescending? I think the best place for these controls are usually on the feature itself. I don't want to have to search in some independent preferences UI every I want to see if something can be tweaked, but it makes sense to offer it there as well.
SeanMacConMara 8y ago
cheers!

jessriedel 8y ago

> the search for yet another "disable" setting begins.... Your inability to figure out how to disable it was already counted as success! > the rates of disabling the feature are negligibly low — a strong indicator that people find it useful. https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikipedia-page-previews-738cddac7a21 https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/w...

therealdrag0 8y ago
> To ensure that these rates were not artificially low due to usability issues, we also confirmed in a separate qualitative test that users were indeed able to find and operate the disable functionality if they desired to disable Page previews. (From their AB article)

mygo 8y ago

“We thought the floating pop-up billboard showing you a preview of what’s inside when you glance at a building was a great feature as you walk down times square” — bad UX designers in 2070