Yeah, thats the one :d

I see it this way:

– required registration in order to use the community based features such as forum, comments, email notifications, advanced features and etc makes sense

– required registration in order to read a news article or download a free trial of some software app is just plain annoying.

Oh, and you are looking for bugmenot.com.

:mrgreen:

And yes, even my site has a registration form, but my site is useless anyway :P

Private property ;)

I hate it that you have to register every stupid site with complete details (+ a valid email address for some stupid confirmation link) to even get access to the slightest information on that site!
There was some site where you could search for “throw-away-accounts” like that and use those ones instead of the registration crap, but i forgot which one that was.

If I hit Stumble and it pops up with a quicktime object and nothing else on the page I always hit stop very quickly

Firstly because I have yet to be entertained or interested by a quicktime object but mainly because they always seem to crash the window

Flash games I dont mind. Serious websites that feel like a flash game, I do

Also, title pages or menus that have some strange rollover effect that makes all the choices move around or change size as you move the mouse (presumably trying to guess what youre going to choose and bring it closer or make it bigger)

Problem is that if I can see the option I want (If I cant then thats also poor design) I’ll probably move my mouse over to it pretty fast and then click equally quickly, this leaves quite a scope for missing the button altogether is its moved in the intervening period

also when you expect hitting enter to do one thing (e.g. submit a comment) and it actually does something similar but different (e.g. preview the comment)

but I like my myspace music! :p

Frosty480 – Hehe! I use the word Internets all the time. I usually also preface it with “teh” so it comes out “teh Intenets”. I also like to add “ZOMG!!11” here and there.

The required forms are here for a reason. I don’t have threaded discussions here (nor do I want to have them cause they suck) so if you don’t put your name next to the comments, how will other people know how to respond to you? They could quote you but quoting is redundant.

Oh, and CAPTCHA is here to prevent spammerz from spamming me with spammalicious spam.

Oh, and that Myspace player is pretty standard – it’s actually a built in feature. Before they added it, people used to embed music in their profiles in a plethora of other stupid ways, some of which were even more annoying. But yeah, it still sucks.

Submitting a blog post with an embedded Youtube vid to stumble, digg or etc is just traffic whoring – especially since 90% of the time the author of the post is not the person who uploaded the vid in the first place.
Gabe – sometimes I don’t mind stumbling upon flash based games when I’m bored. But yeah, the “hey, look at my 1337 flash skillz” sites are lame most of the time.

A-fucking-men to this list. To extended a few of them- do not give the StumbleUpon “thumbs up” to a site with a video clip (via YouTube or any other shit dispersion center.) When I’m stumbling I want to see relevant and insightful pages that I might not have found on my own, I don’t give a rat’s ass about a video you think is funny. Same goes for a flash site- I don’t care how creative it is, if you make me stare at you “loading” image, I’m leaving. If you want to do something so interactive, go write a video game or something.

Also required fields when I’m TOO TIRED TO CARE.
Also the hideous player I’ve just seen on possibly-the-first-“myspace”-page-I’ve-ever-seen that uses an animated image file that pretends to be a… whatever those bars that go up and down according to the volume of various frequencies are actually called. Again, too tired to care.

The use of the word “internets”.