What do you find annoying about websites?

[Malice]

Images that cover up text! I see it all the time in the indieweb and I have no idea why anyone would do that. Don't you want people to actually read what you wrote? I'm all for fun dollz and pngs of characters, but if it's blocking your about section, I'm out. It's even worse if it makes my computer slow down

[Paprika]

Empty dead pages. Like the person started a few lines of code with ideas and all and... nothing. You just see "copyright 2015" or "last update 01-04-2021". I can't help but wonder about those people. Did they gave up ? Did something happen ? I'm not looking for a full site but seeing a lot of empty layouts and dead pages are mildy annoying.

[Codachrome]

its hard for me to read certain serifed fonts, so whenever an entire paragraph is written in it, my brain freaks out

[larvapuppy]

This is a really specific thing but when websites use emojis instead of paying a graphic designer for decor (or even looking for free graphics online) it's annoying, ugly, and makes me take them less seriously. Especially on online storefronts it's super unprofessional and makes companies seem like fake or scam companies. It reminds me of how AI bros type and how Instagram users decorate their posts, so not something I want to see when I am looking at a website for research or looking to buy something.

[st3phvee]

Also whatever this is.

MY EYES.

As for me, my pet peeve is sites with dark/light mode that don't also have an auto option. My whole system automatically swaps over to dark mode at 5pm, and it irritates me to have to manually change websites over to dark mode. If you're going to go through the trouble of offering visitors the option of toggling between dark and light mode, it's not hard to give the option to respect the visitor's system preferences. I'm more forgiving if it's a small site, but for a site like Reddit to not have it... <shakes head>