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> Do people still type "www."? From my experience, yes. I am getting merried next month - we have a wedding website via "with joy", which had a URL a bit too
by TreeInBuxton 3y ago
> Do people still type "www."?
From my experience, yes.
I am getting merried next month - we have a wedding website via "with joy", which had a URL a bit too long to fit on our wedding invites, so I set up a redirect of "wedding.surname.tld" - the amount of people who messaged us saying the website didn't work, and it turns out they were putting "www." beforehand was staggering (until I added that as a redirect too).
- lostlogin 3y agoIf you are ever in a tech support role and have to see how people use computers, it’s actually horrific.
- passwordoops 3y agoI think anyone working UX should spend 3-6 months minimum in tech support every couple of years. I imagine the value of those learnings would vastly outweigh any useability studies or testing.
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoRighteous conclusion: make computers harder to scare the normies off.
- passwordoops 3y agoIf it means I get my ports and physical buttons back, I'm all for it!
- vxNsr 3y agoI have an email that is firstname@lastname.tld when I tell it to people, or tech support they always first assume I’m an idiot and really meant to say firstlast@gmail.com The tld isn’t com there’s no g in the entire address, but people have a hard time understanding that such a thing is a real email address. I do happen to have that gmail address also, but my name is uncommon and not the easiest to spell, so as long as they get my last name and tld right I’ll get the email if they send it to my vanity domain.
- Arch-TK 3y agoMy email is first @ la.st (with the TLD being the last three letters of my last name). People really struggle with this. Websites sometimes reject it on principle that the TLD obviously can't exist.
- vxNsr 3y agoI wanted something like, the ccTLD was available for it, but I couldn’t find a registrar to buy it from, when it finally became available, it appears the country is trying to sell the domain at a premium bec it’s short (3 letters) so I’m sad.
- fireshaper 3y agoI'm a huge nerd for TLDs and that's is just awesome. My last name is too obscure to have something that cool but it's so neat to have that as an option.
- cbsks 3y agoI got a domain with my first name and my wife’s first name like jimja.ne, but she was not a fan of it at all. I ended up getting jimjane.org instead. Much easier for people to use.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y agoI have an email of the format: Foren@meSurna.me Except it's much shorter (10 chars total). I basically only use it on my resume now, as people that work in tech are the only ones recognize it as a valid email address.
- fireshaper 3y agoI am starting to move away from gmail to proton and I had someone ask me if proton.me was a personal domain name. I wish! People expect gmail or other common domains and don't know what to do if you give them something other than that.
- jimmydddd 3y ago
- rvba 3y agoIn Kiwi browser (which after my tests seems to be the best Android browser: chome but with good / old way to scroll cards + ublock) you can make a personalized tab with links to pages. When you try to add a new page it auto suggests http adress - not httpS. So dont blame it always on users :)
- VHRanger 3y agoIn cases like this I'd just make a QR code of the url
- AlecSchueler 3y agoThen your tech support simply changes to guiding people in the use of QR codes.
- flangola7 3y agoThose numbers have to be very low now that we are post 2020.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoReally? I've been in the tech world for over a decade but think I've personally scanned only a single QR code in the wild. For people outside our bubble they basically don't exist, though I'll admit this is probably quite location dependant.
- n4r9 3y agoIn the UK during lockdown they became quite common as a way of ordering food to your table in a restaurant or pub. I think that's the only time I use them though.
- lbotos 3y agoI’m sitting here eating a chicken katsu curry in London and each seat at the bar has a QR code to scan and see the menu. For the past 3 years a lot of restaurants switched to QR based menus for obvious reasons. So I’d wager to say that anyone that went out to eat in the last 3 years has interacted with at least a handful of QR scans :) I’ve also seen hotels adopt “scan this code to get our WI-FI details”. Which is a pretty seamless experience and great
- NikolaNovak 3y ago
- treesknees 3y agoSimilar thing happened to us. I had the www redirect but used a .wedding TLD. On the invites I even put the entire “http://<domain>.wedding/“ http://<domain>.wedding/“ hoping it’d be clear. I’d say a majority of people didn’t recognize that it was a web address and assumed we didn’t have a website.
- actionfromafar 3y agoTo be fair “.com” would probably have convinced more of them. “.wedding” is obviously some cheeky made up thing…
- bombcar 3y agoMy earliest domain was registered in '99 and I'd still not really believe "dot wedding" - what's next, "dot muffin"?
- eindiran 3y agoThere are some pretty out-there ones now. No .muffin yet, but its a lot more plausible now than it was 5 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
- stuff4ben 3y agonot https?
- Angostura 3y agohaving www. is a nice quixk way of saying "this is a website address" without having to say it.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoI suppose that could also be an indication that they haven't typed in a URL in a very long time. A shocking (to me) number of people I work with don't know the URLs of websites they visit every day or that they can go directly to a site by typing in the address in "the search bar". And I mean people who use their computers for a living, not the "smartphone generation" or strangers to the web.
- inversetelecine 3y agoIndeed. Me: Hey checkout <website>.com Them: type <website> without .com in address bar, click on search results link that may or may not be correct.
- scarmig 3y agoThat's not a terrible approach for some things. If I get a call from my bank telling me to login to my-bank.us or something to deal with a pressing issue, it may well be a phishing attempt, and it's generally a safer approach to google my bank and get to the login page that way instead of using the domain a caller tells you to.