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    Chris Maunder
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    Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

    Did you know you can change
    the colour of the menu bar
    to a slightly lighter shade of
    purple!?!
    [ Got it ]

    And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

    cheers Chris Maunder

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      Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

      Did you know you can change
      the colour of the menu bar
      to a slightly lighter shade of
      purple!?!
      [ Got it ]

      And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

      cheers Chris Maunder

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      • C Chris Maunder

        Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

        Did you know you can change
        the colour of the menu bar
        to a slightly lighter shade of
        purple!?!
        [ Got it ]

        And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

        cheers Chris Maunder

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        RaviBee
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        Is there a hidden option to have the app not show these "helpful" tips? /ravi

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        • C Chris Maunder

          Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

          Did you know you can change
          the colour of the menu bar
          to a slightly lighter shade of
          purple!?!
          [ Got it ]

          And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

          cheers Chris Maunder

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          There there.

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          • C Chris Maunder

            Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

            Did you know you can change
            the colour of the menu bar
            to a slightly lighter shade of
            purple!?!
            [ Got it ]

            And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

            cheers Chris Maunder

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            Did you know you cannot disable
            these annoying Got it popups?
            [ Got it ]

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            • C Chris Maunder

              Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

              Did you know you can change
              the colour of the menu bar
              to a slightly lighter shade of
              purple!?!
              [ Got it ]

              And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

              cheers Chris Maunder

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              den2k88
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              Chris Maunder wrote:

              you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for

              I can see a solution.

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              • C Chris Maunder

                Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

                Did you know you can change
                the colour of the menu bar
                to a slightly lighter shade of
                purple!?!
                [ Got it ]

                And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

                cheers Chris Maunder

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                dandy72
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                We used to call them Tip of the Day. They were as annoying back then as they are now. And CP may be [complicit](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7424/XHTMLTipOfTheDay-HTML-Tip-of-the-Day-Dialog), as it's hosting at least one article that shows people exactly how to implement this. :doh:

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

                  Did you know you can change
                  the colour of the menu bar
                  to a slightly lighter shade of
                  purple!?!
                  [ Got it ]

                  And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

                  cheers Chris Maunder

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                  TNCaver
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                  It is not just you. I've been noticing this on everything from MS products to Adobe lately. Darned annoying "feature."

                  There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
                     - Thomas Sowell

                  A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
                     - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..

                    Did you know you can change
                    the colour of the menu bar
                    to a slightly lighter shade of
                    purple!?!
                    [ Got it ]

                    And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural. I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you. Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?

                    cheers Chris Maunder

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                    Ahhh, brings back memories, what you are experiencing now, and the grand daddy of them all, was called "Clippy" - The Twisted Life of Clippy[^] After banning and exiling poor Clippy came all of the other tweaks (children if you like) to get you involved in NOT doing what you are suppose to but to pay attention to our "super hero geeky pop-ups" like... [Got It] :laugh:

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