this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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Bad UI Battles

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For intentionally bad and silly user interfaces.

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Is this the beginning of enshittification of bluesky? I can not search their website using the search icon they present to me on their website.

https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ice

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[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Would you agree that it is bad UI, or do you just expect social media platforms to be this way nowadays for users who are not logged in (to mitigate spamming of the search functionality I guess)?

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Search is pretty expensive in terms of CPU and RAM usage, so it's a common target in DDoS attacks and I'm not too surprised that they lock it down. Github also requires you to log in to use their code search.

[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I still remember the time in 2017 where search was not as locked down (on github) as it is today. I kind of miss it.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, I would agree. Don't get me wrong, bsky is kind of not my thing in general lol