Comment by jasode

>You can’t have your UI disrespecting [...] and I care too much!

I think it just highlights that people care about different things. I've seen the "(s)" placeholder for decades in computer UIs and it's never bothered me. On the other hand, blog article characteristics that bug me are titles consisting of a non-descriptive teaser with ellipsis (...) that doesn't describe the main point and not having a publication date at the top.

But I'm not going to complain about blog articles that "disrespect" readers that way because apparently, it's ok with some writers and some readers.

Likewise, someone using the Comic Sans font enrages some folks but it never bothers me. On the other hand, displaying big numbers without any thousands separators is very annoying.

I code a lot of utilities for myself and I always avoid the "(s)" problem by re-ordering the text. Instead of:

  Uploading 3 image(s)

The UI is:

  Number of images uploaded:  3

That looks ok for all quantities and doesn't require tedious ternary logic everywhere :

  Number of images uploaded:  0
  Number of images uploaded:  1
  Number of images uploaded:  2