What's wrong with a search button oder "press enter to search"? Am I getting old?
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Or an asynchronous process loading without always interrupting the UI
Or random scrolling around. I'm looking at you CircleCI.
Debouncing is thy friend.
Seriously, I was new to frontend and using jQueryUI back then and it took me like a few seconds to lookup the term and parameter so my autocompletes wouldn't DoS my backend. I'm amazed to see shit like this in prod.
I was beginning to stress out at the rest call every letter typed. 1-3 second delay! Stop hammering your server!
Looks like they've fixed it since you posted. No issues for me on Firefox for Android.
It's still the same for my FF on android. Chrome is a bit better but also bad.
Someone forgot a debounce
I wonder if this counts towards your rate limiting quota?
I get that a lot on websites js-fiddling user-input poorly. Duckduckgo on mobile a recent example.
Ddg works fine for me
Did they start vibing as well?
No their website was already this bad on mobile before vibing was a thing lol
That is terrible on Firefox for Android. Chrome on Android is a bit better.