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Tried to read a post on their forums and after the post loads, comes this lovely modal. The X to close the modal is quite continently positioned so it is under the top UI of the browser and thus cannot be closed. My respect for this site has just been lost.

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

For the type of site that it is, I'm willing to entertain the idea that it's a design mistake where they didn't expect certain smaller screen heights.

I could be wrong but I feel like this is one of those "don't assume malice when stupid suffices" situation, and "stupid" would be a big word

Can you tap that X when you scroll the screen a little? Because it feels like a single scroll down would get you that close button

[-] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Dang if an iPhone 16 is a small screen now lol No, the is not tappable when scrolling. It can be seen, but cannot be tapped when holding the scroll down, and if you release the scroll finger it just goes right back to under the browser UI.

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