What do you find annoying about websites?

[BasilABST]

Websites that attempt to support non-English language formats but somehow screw it up! My native language is written the opposite way, and sometimes websites try to accommodate for it, all of our computer UIs are flipped because of it, etc etc. That's good! But sometimes, it really screws up and it's kinda blatant that they did not really give enough of a dang to actually get it right be it severe formatting errors or stuff like that, or YouTube and its ungodly auto-dubbing...

[GlitchWolf47]

I feel like this is kinda a dumb thing, but when a site doesnt have a clear site button located on their site

What I mean is, not that they dont HAVE a site button at all (cuz thats fine) but that its EXTREMELY hard to find. ive found amazing sites Ive wanted to link before and I look ALL OVER THE SITE like EVERYWHERE and I cannot find a site button DESPITE KNOWING IT EXISTS. Its just very annoying to me

[ocean]

I'll add yet another voice to this discussion, but I also hate entrance pages, "Enter Site" buttons and the like. I already consented to viewing your website by typing in the url or clicking a link, why do I need to double consent? All this does is obscure the content and make it harder to archive the page.

I also think web pages not working on mobile devices is annoying. About 90% of the time I'm browsing websites on my computer, but it's frustrating to open something and it not work on my iPhone; knowing the CSS to do make it work would require probably two or three lines.

I wrote a little blog about this specifically:
https://oceanmew.com/blog/it-has-to-be-responsive/

[GlitchWolf47]

I also hate entrance pages, "Enter Site" buttons and the like. I already consented to viewing your website by typing in the url or clicking a link, why do I need to double consent?

People (including myself) do that in case of epilepsy or photosensitivity. Like, if I have my site linked on somewhere like tumblr and someone who has epilepsy clicks it and doesn't know it's covered in eyestraining blinkies and graphics they could get a seizure. I understand where you're coming from a bit tho if the website DOESNT have anything like that, just seems counterproductive at that point (or if the landing page has eyestrain graphics then its kinda pointless)

[solaria]

A few of mine were already covered, but heres two I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Fixed scrolling - When I scroll down and it yanks me back up, or yanks me further down than where I actually scrolled to. This genuinely pisses me off. I stopped scrolling where I wanted to for a reason. Why are you forcing scroll positions? Why are certain positions "right" and not the rest?

Justified text - this is a minor annoyance, definitely not as severe as the scrolling one, but does put me off. It's simply hard for me to read due to the uneven spacing between words, and since each line ends at the same spot, its harder for me to keep track of which line I'm on (I have minor dyslexia).

And now to points other people covered!

Entrances:

I find entrances (or whatever they're called) to often serve as no more than a roadblock which makes you look for the entrance button, then to wait again for the actual home page to load

If your site has content that warrants a warning but it's NOT a big part of your website overall, put that warning where the problematic content is! Not on the splash page!

long animations and transitions

I've definitely come across splash pages where I was hunting for the entrance link! I just want to see your site!! I have nothing against splash pages but I rarely actually read them ^^; and do find it silly when the warnings are more severe than the content. What really annoys me is entrance animation, like Skykristal said. I don't mind when I first visit a site, as I understand it is to give off a certain atmosphere and be an artistic touch, but I hate having to wait for the entrance animation every time I visit, it just gets old and annoying.

also, that flickering old TV effect that is overlayed onto the entire page, and there's no way to disable it!

Yes! I used to notice this more a few years ago, it seems the CRT effects people use are much more subtle and easier on the eyes now. The flickering and scrolling lines used to be bad.