this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Software Gore

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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (9 children)

Strava is the best for this. Screenshot of Strava creating exponentially more mountain biking travel than I actually did, yet in the same amount of time.

~~(I still don't understand how to load images here)~~

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

its

![](https://image.url/)

so,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Also you can add a text description of the image between the brackets if you'd like. It helps blind people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, so it becomes alt text? That's brilliant. It just disappeared but I didn't realize what happened. Or I'm misunderstanding ~~(not seeing the text)~~. Nope, I see it if I click on show source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Also, some apps like Voyager will show the alt text as a caption when you open the image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

That's what I was expecting. Have to check that out. Thanks.

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