Pizza Slow, Apps that steal focus suck

Apps that steal focus suck. Interfaces that allow a dialog to lock focus for the entire interface suck plus infinity.

Posted on Facebook over 17 years agoon November 12, 2008 - 1:43 PM and archived here at /facebook/2008/11/12/13-43-00-apps-that-steal-focus-suck/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/facebook/2008/11/12/13-43-00-apps-that-steal-focus-suck/ in the Facebook collection in both HTML and markdown.

Proximate posts in the Facebook collection
Newer	I'm having complete and utter writer's block working on a sc	12 November 2008
This post	Apps that steal focus suck	12 November 2008
Older	And people say I don't make sense: @dogfish_ale you seem to	11 November 2008

Proximate posts in the General collection
Newer	I'm having complete and utter writer's block working on a sc	12 November 2008
This post	Apps that steal focus suck	12 November 2008
Older	And people say I don't make sense: @dogfish_ale you seem to	11 November 2008

Like lots of people I suppose, I think of who I was and what I posted more than a year or two ago to be, on average, a little cringe. More than five years old? Pretty embarassing. Ten or more years old? Deeply shameful. On average, of course. So it goes.

In spite of all that, or in order to grow, I've horded my embarassments from various platforms over the years and present them here for your avoidance. This is not a place of honor, and so on.

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Posts by platform by year, 1999–2026
	Blog	Facebook	Twitter	Tumblr	Instagram	Path	Vimeo	Strava	Mastodon	Bookwyrm	total

total	518	2286	3892	2387	132	16	38	566	2251	72	12158
1999	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7
2000	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10
2001	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
2002	23	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23
2003	35	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	35
2004	85	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	85
2005	150	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	150
2006	83	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	83
2007	72	16	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	88
2008	33	546	169	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	748
2009	10	407	744	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1161
2010	6	195	352	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	556
2011	4	383	290	8	20	–	–	–	–	–	705
2012	–	372	254	124	19	16	1	–	–	–	786
2013	–	165	512	196	–	–	3	–	–	–	876
2014	–	73	670	270	–	–	–	6	–	–	1019
2015	–	74	889	554	–	–	11	2	–	–	1530
2016	–	55	12	389	1	–	3	–	–	–	460
2017	–	–	–	429	47	–	5	7	–	–	488
2018	–	–	–	414	45	–	–	7	123	–	589
2019	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	210	–	211
2020	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	2	452	–	457
2021	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	8	404	–	419
2022	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	4	422	–	427
2023	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	48	214	13	276
2024	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	167	205	33	405
2025	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	222	154	22	400
2026	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	93	67	4	164
total	518	2286	3892	2387	132	16	38	566	2251	72	12158