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Switches seems like an innovation that just makes UI worse.

Checkboxes are easy to understand.

If there is immediate effect then using a checkbox also works perfectly fine.

The switch is just always worse (IMO).



> Switches seems like an innovation that just makes UI worse

I once visited a site that had a hamburger menu holding the navbar that auto-hid if you clicked away. They also had a switch on the corner of the opposite side of the screen that opened the navbar and kept it open

I still sometimes wonder what was going through the UI guy's head when they made that




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