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Slider Of Doom: When Frontend Developers Choose Violence

Slider Of Doom: When Frontend Developers Choose Violence
Some developers just want to watch the world burn. Instead of implementing a standard phone input field, this diabolical programmer created a SLIDER for entering a phone number. Pure evil genius at work! This is what happens when you give developers too much free time and not enough code reviews. The next sprint planning will definitely include a "fix that damn phone input" ticket with highest priority.

The Design Is Very Human

The Design Is Very Human
Ah yes, the pinnacle of UX design—listing every possible phone number in a dropdown instead of using a simple text input. Because why let users type when they can enjoy the thrill of scrolling through thousands of options? Nothing says "we value your time" like forcing you to hunt for your number like it's a needle in a digital haystack. The developer probably thought: "Text fields are so 2005, let's make users earn their form submission." This is what happens when you ask the backend dev to handle the frontend for "just one quick task."

The Date Picker From Digital Hell

The Date Picker From Digital Hell
SWEET MOTHER OF FORM DESIGN, what unholy abomination is THIS?! Someone took perfectly normal month names and BUTCHERED them into a three-column massacre! January is "j-an-uary"?! MARCH is "m-a-rch"?! WHO HURT YOU, FRONTEND DEVELOPER?! 😱 And that day field set to ZERO? Because apparently being born on the 0th day of the month is totally a thing now! Not to mention defaulting to 1900 like we're all time-traveling vampires filling out paperwork. This isn't UI design—it's a crime against humanity's sanity!

The World's Most Secure Verification System

The World's Most Secure Verification System
Oh look, the world's most useless verification screen! They literally display the code right above the input boxes. Security experts everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force. This is what happens when the product manager says "make verification simple" and the developer takes it a bit too literally. The kind of code that makes penetration testers cry tears of joy during security audits. Somewhere, a junior dev is proudly announcing they've reduced failed verification attempts by 100%.

The Honor System Security Model

The Honor System Security Model
When a dropdown explicitly tells you not to select something, it's basically sending an engraved invitation to every developer's curiosity. That "Only for Admin Use" option might as well be labeled "Click Here to See What Happens." Nothing says "robust security model" quite like putting admin privileges in a user-facing dropdown and just hoping people follow instructions. It's the digital equivalent of putting a cookie jar on the counter with a sticky note saying "Please don't eat" and expecting that to work.

I Hope He Was Fired

I Hope He Was Fired
When the dev who built your UI validation thought phone numbers were just decorative elements. Somewhere out there, a database is screaming as it stores "74626282613" with no country code, formatting, or validation whatsoever. The slider is a particularly nice touch - nothing says "professional application" like measuring phone digits on a scale from "not enough" to "way too many."

Spin The Story

Spin The Story
Ah, the corporate spin machine at its finest. When a developer points out the horrible UX, management doesn't fix it—they rebrand the bug as a feature. "Added friction to filter out low-intent users" is just executive speak for "our interface is so bad only desperate people will use it." The best part? The other developers just accept this nonsense with dead eyes. That MBA really taught them how to turn incompetence into strategy. Next week they'll probably call crashes "unexpected meditation opportunities."

Who Is Guilty: The Slider Phone Number Massacre

Who Is Guilty: The Slider Phone Number Massacre
SWEET MOTHER OF INPUT VALIDATION! The absolute CRIME SCENE that is this phone number field! Some developer had the AUDACITY to create a slider—A SLIDER!!!—for entering a phone number! The poor user is forced to play "Price is Right" with their own contact information, dragging that cursor pixel by excruciating pixel to reach their digits! Whoever designed this UI monstrosity deserves to spend eternity debugging Internet Explorer 6 compatibility issues with nothing but print statements. This is why we can't have nice things in tech! The designer deserves not just firing, but a special circle of developer hell where all form inputs are controlled by interpretive dance!