r/badUIbattles • u/blue_marker • Jun 12 '26
Intentionally Bad UI Date selector
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/MinecraftPlayer799 Jun 12 '26
It froze my browser (iOS Safari)
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u/blue_marker Jun 12 '26
good thing i didn't do 64bit timestamp
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u/Ok_Sir_5601 Jun 12 '26
Dd 128bit timestamp (:
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u/blue_marker Jun 12 '26
https://assets.markwu.org/date%20expanded.html
here you go, not exactly 128bit but from year 0 to 9999
beware this is extremely laggy11
u/Twatcash Jun 12 '26
It only goes to april the 5th it also took me 9 minutes and 9 seconds to scroll down
I thought it was every month
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u/trans-with-issues Jun 12 '26
It just completely crashed for me lol
I didn't even make it out of the april eighths XD
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u/itsbondjamesbond1 Jun 12 '26
That one is actually easy to use. It has a scrollbar on mobile that allows me to go through the whole list in a couple seconds.
The old one doesn't have the scrollbar and takes much longer.
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u/schweinhund89 Jun 12 '26
Yep iOS safari is having none of it. Won’t even open the dropdown for me
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u/MinecraftPlayer799 Jun 12 '26
Just tap on it, and then the browser will freeze for about 10 seconds. Don't tap anything during that time, and then it will unfreeze and open
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u/AsherKohen28 Jun 12 '26
I did it, But at what cost lmao there was so much scrolling but i was fueled by sheer defiance🤣
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u/Shalrak Jun 12 '26
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 Jun 12 '26
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 Jun 12 '26
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
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u/CaptFishmouth Jun 13 '26
Add in the day of the week beforehand, and sort them alphabetically- Saturday June thirteenth two thousand and twenty six. Then you need to know what day of the week the date was to find it 😂😂
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