14 comments

  • jonathanlydall 7 minutes ago
    My favourite bad volume control was in Real Player around 1997 where changing the volume in the application actually changed the global volume of Windows.
  • graypegg 37 minutes ago
    This is not an issue at all, but when ever I come across something like it, I like to poke at the frontend in dev tools a bit. You can pass most levels with `setVolume(25)` in the web console, since that function is just sitting in the document object. That feels like the ultimate volume UI puzzle heh.
  • anwar_nairi 24 minutes ago
    Had a lot of fun cool idea! Make it a PWA so I can list it on https://korru.app
  • xnx 38 minutes ago
    The worst volume control UI in the world (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819384
  • TheLNL 40 minutes ago
    Finished the game. It was fun to play. I got stuck for a while on the opposite level where the display doesn't update, but was able to go through the rest just fine
  • jimkleiber 58 minutes ago
    Got an error on Level 17, just a heads up.

    Love the game, btw.

  • Retr0id 1 hour ago
    There are two types of volume slider I've encountered thus far, "too logarithmic", and "not logarithmic enough".
    • embedding-shape 42 minutes ago
      That's because one ear is logarithmic-based and the other is exponential-based. Which one differs per person.
      • JulianWasTaken 37 minutes ago
        Do you have a source, that seems unlikely at face value to me, though I've never gone and looked for perception studies myself.
  • jupin 1 hour ago
    Laughed out loud but gave up at level 5
  • DrSiemer 30 minutes ago
    Plenty of annoyance in here for sure. Looks like 17 cannot be finished on mobile though. Switching to desktop view resets progress.
  • tobr 59 minutes ago
    Meanwhile, iPhone is still using this design https://xkcd.com/1884/
  • Findecanor 1 hour ago
    When clicking on this topic, I had anticipated it to be about GTK 3.x's messed up sliders.

    This was more fun, in a dystopian kind of way. I have sure encountered the rate-limited spinner and the self-resizing slider in real UIs. Perhaps GTK's behaviour is on a level that I have not reached.

  • Daminoup 52 minutes ago
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  • dsmason321 1 hour ago
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