QR codes are not meant for humans to read, they are meant for machines to read. Why do they want to make QR codes round or make them heart-shaped when they could just embrace the brutalist geometric QR code?

  • spiderhamster@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I get that adding a QR code adds a tracking/metrics component to an organizations resources but as a user it pisses me off. Just put a human-readable URL there so I know what to do. I can remember www.poblanopete.com easier than I scan and load a page on my phone.

    My town has a poster downtown that says “Scan here to see a map of this downtown area”. WTF? Why not just put a fucking map there with an arrow that says “You are here?”. It at least makes me laugh every time I see it.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m fairly pro qr code, at least over urls. Its just easier to scan and go to a website over sit and type out or worse take a picture and convince myself to go to it later to hand jam it.

      But not just printing the map is so silly lol