Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-7091122-20170214155759

Generally speaking, autoplaying music can be loud, obnoxious, and if not expected, frightening. Yet I notice several userpages that utilize it. While I don't wish to mention them for anonymity's sake, I do want to mention that this is usually frowned upon in terms of web design.

It actually reached a point where, upon showing my close friend and self-taught CSS coder (whom you might know for being one of the people to help me compile a list of too light/dark/ugly looking link colors in my threat to reform some link colors for PvZH long ago) some user pages, she basically went full-on nuts trying to vent at me at how autoplaying music, especially loud autoplaying music, is just awful design. Keep in mind her headset was at a volume of 6/100, but it was still loud to her. That's only 6% of the normal audio, yet it was clear as day to hear. I shudder to think what'd happen if that headset were at 100/100...

So, it's generally not a good design choice, and it's generally negative to the viewing experience of just about any page. Why is it allowed? Granted, I can see the appeal in some of this if it's in moderation (say, can't use audio if it's X decibels too loud), but no moderation is just asking for trouble, and lampooning of people who actually understand design.

 