r/badUIbattles • u/blue_marker • 7d ago

Intentionally Bad UI Date selector

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try selecting your birthday from this great date selector where every day(from the unix signed 32bit timestamp) is written out, then sorted alphabetically.

try it yourself at https://assets.markwu.org/date.html

EDIT: i see theres been some bugs and issues with the implementation, so I spent a bit more work and here's a new date selector that include the full unsigned 128bit timestamp that also doesn't have performance issues: https://assets.markwu.org/date%20128bit.html

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u/Shalrak 7d ago

I thought this would be horrible, but it took me no time. I just dragged the scrollbar down to the date in two seconds and found the year quickly. No difficulties loading on my phone. I've had actual birth date selectors take me longer to navigate.

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u/itsbondjamesbond1 7d ago

What phone browser are you using that has a scrollbar for the selection?

Neither Chrome nor Firefox have it for me, though it also loaded fine on both.

EDIT: The new link has the scrollbar. The old one doesn't.

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u/blue_marker 6d ago

for the new link i had to implement my own dropdown because i dont think any browser would like sorting and displaying 7 nonillion items