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Seek throws up a „please don‘t disturb nature“ modal at every single start that you need to click away. Usually at that point the bird has gone away, too.

The iNaturalist app doesn‘t. It has more features, but Seek‘s former advantage „let me just the a photo and auto-identify“ is now in the iNaturalist main app, as well, so it is my default now.



>Seek throws up a „please don‘t disturb nature“ modal at every single start that you need to click away.

Frustration shared.


So the modal is doing its job.


Sure, it's "doing its job" much in the way a podcast advert you've already heard 1000 times is "doing its job".


I keep hearing people speak so positively of "friction," lately, and yet. Some more nuance required in that discussion, I think.


Making the user completely inured to its message is not doing its job


wow, that would be my cue to uninstall the app and write zeros repeatedly over the place it used to be!


This guy deletes!


That's great to know, I'll give it a shot for sure.




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