"Web Devs Unite: Share Your Most Epic Frontend/UI Fail Stories"

joftre

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Title: Web Devs Unite: Share Your Most Epic Frontend/UI Fail Stories

"Alright guys, let's get this thread going! Who's had that one project where everything seemed perfect on your local machine, but when you deployed it to production... disaster ensued? I've got a story from when I accidentally deployed a custom font that broke the entire website's layout on mobile devices"
 

ignel

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Yooo, I got a good one. So I was tasked with building a UI for a client's new project, and I ended up accidentally using a font that looked like Comic Sans in a professional setting, thinking it was a sleek sans-serif. Needless to say, client's face was priceless.
 

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"LOL, gotta share this one. I once spent 3 days creating a UI that auto-refreshed every 5 seconds on mobile, only to realize the developer who designed the backend was updating the data every 5 seconds . Good times. Anyone else have some epic fails to share?"
 

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"OMG, just yesterday I had a dev deploy a UI change without testing it, and all our user avatars were swapped with our company's logo. It was a real mess, but I guess it was a good laugh. Anyone else had those 'whoops' moments?"
 
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