Tried to read a post on their forums and after the post loads, comes this lovely modal. The X to close the modal is quite continently positioned so it is under the top UI of the browser and thus cannot be closed. My respect for this site has just been lost.
I’m going to call that a bug. This is what it looks like for me. I can also tap the space around it to dismiss it.
Yeah, same for me in Safari - not sure what happened to OP but it looks like they triggered a rendering bug somehow.
Be sure to make that close button as tiny as possible! Maybe next time they can do a white close button on a white background.
The icon is small, but it’s not near any other interaction targets, it’s where you expect a close button to be, and the contrast literally couldn’t be any higher.
I mean it’s not enough to make me lose respect for ifixit, that seems a little extreme for what amounts to whoever is making their website being a dumbass. These types of subscribe popups are incredibly obnoxious though and I can’t imagine the minuscule amount of subscriptions they gain are worth making the mobile experience so irritating. I’ve certainly never subscribed through one of these
It’s definitely annoying, especially since it seems to pop up at a random time and it automatically focuses the email field at least for me, but I just can’t justify calling the hidden close button asshole design since it’s obviously a layout calculation error.
Yeah I’m more complaining about the type of popup in general
You sound like you work in marketing.
You’re using Chrome on iOS.
The address bar expands when you scroll up and contracts when you scroll down.
In your screenshot, the address bar is in the expanded state. In this state, it will partially cover page content unless you have scrolled to the very top edge.
This is not deliberate malicious placement on iFixit’s part. You are falsely attributing malice to a coincidental UI behavior in your browser of choice on your mobile platform of choice.
They could not have a full page pop-up covering an article, but yaknow…
For the type of site that it is, I’m willing to entertain the idea that it’s a design mistake where they didn’t expect certain smaller screen heights.
I could be wrong but I feel like this is one of those “don’t assume malice when stupid suffices” situation, and “stupid” would be a big word
Can you tap that X when you scroll the screen a little? Because it feels like a single scroll down would get you that close button
Dang if an iPhone 16 is a small screen now lol No, the is not tappable when scrolling. It can be seen, but cannot be tapped when holding the scroll down, and if you release the scroll finger it just goes right back to under the browser UI.
