Is it actually measuring progress of anything as it's happening, or do they just update the percentage when it passes certain milestones? So many progress bars are just straight-up lies that slowly increment a number until the real process finishes and it shoots to 100% from wherever it was at before.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 months ago

Relevant TomScott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZnLZFRylbs

There are definitely better and worse progress bar systems but there are no "good" ones.

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