Author here. I'm sorry if you're experiencing some scroll shenanigans, but it isn't related to my website.
The only scroll-related things that would be different on my site are disabling overscroll to prevent that annoying bounce effect which shows unintended areas when reaching the end of a scrollable area and my custom scroll indicator (https://vale.rocks/posts/the-implementation-of-this-site#scr...), which has no impact on scroll behaviour.
This is stupid. You need to do some sort of delegation. If some one logins now in USA and 10 min later a login is detected from Singapore. And again if US login is detected - this will throw any security to bonkers.
May be you/your client needs a proper workflow. May be you need to run some security company/email service at the level of Google to see.
Sure, but said delegation abilities frequently don't exist, are locked behind a very substantial paywall, or are simply very difficult to set up. Account sharing is a fallback which bypasses all of those issues and so is commonly used, especially in shadow-IT and smaller companies which don't have the resources to invest in a solution with better security properties.
> It's my account that's at risk of hijacking, so I should be able to decide. If I opted for no 2FA despite Google begging me to turn it on every login, that's my decision.
If that is your argument then it is their service. They can decide how to offer it. Services like this are designed for majority - and a majority are happy. If you don't prefer then you can find alternate services. Market is wide open.
1. "does not work" is wildly subjective. Google Reader was tremendously awesome. It "worked" for a lot of people.
2. Even when something doesn't work, they don't just shut it; they shut down one project, and start two competing ones with slightly overlapping feature sets. And now you get to choose which one you want to eventually migrate away from when they inevitably shut it down, as well, in favor of another set of competing internal projects.
I think they shut things down when it doesn't work for Google, and that really doesn't give me an incentive to use any Google product. I'm still on gmail, and I'm betting that they won't dare shut that down - can you imagine? - but I absolutely will not invest any time or money into anything else they offer.
It's an app that plays podcasts, just like dozens of other apps out there. What exactly are they innovating on that has taken four total rewrites to get right?
I've been using the same podcast app for probably 10+ years and have zero complaints. Not having to waste time migrating every few years is a better than any new feature Google is adding.
> I am just saddened employees inside don't comment/protest at the UI/UX/managers.
You're saddened by the wrong thing. Most employees have little to no power to change anything. Protest is a kind of insubordination that would likely do no good and lead to personal hardship and little else.
The only people with power in a company are the owners and their designated employee-agents (executive managers). Even in a heavily unionized company, employee power doesn't extend much beyond influencing pay and working conditions.
Remember, so many of them don't even use Windows itself. They're so unabashedly removed from the actual user experience that I doubt anyone working with them can change their minds.
Nobody cares.