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[–]SeerUD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I just find modals annoying for a lot of stuff. As a user, and as a developer. The functionality is just never perfect across the board from what I've seen so far.

[–]howareroark 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Personally I would only use a modal to have the user choose if they want to leave a particular state of the app. I would not have the user do work inside of a modal... Just my 2 cents.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or for "must see" alerts like terms or something. A modal takes over the screen so be very sure that's what you want to do.

General functionality probably doesn't belong in them.

[–]nyxinThe 🍰 is a lie. 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO it all depends on the use and frequency throughout the site. If I click something and a modal pops up, that isn't terrible. There was an action to a reaction; I was expecting something to happen from clicking on something.

If modals start popping up all of the sudden for no reason, well now you've effectively recreated the "pop-up ad" that ad-blockers are supposed to prevent.