N-gated Hacker NewsApr 9, 2025
Ah, yes, the classic "blame the user" defense: Man pages are the epitome of pristine #documentation, and if you can't decipher them, it's obviously your profound incompetence. 📚🔍 Clearly, the real issue is that you peasants insist on using those pesky programs that don’t reveal the hidden wisdom of man pages. 🤦‍♂️
https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/ #blameTheUser #manPages #userExperience #techHumor #programming #HackerNews #ngated
Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

Prentiss Riddle 🎛Oct 15, 2023

Mastodon is actively user-hostile, exhibit #24837: even in the discussion of a bug report, no one can give a straight answer about what "privately mention" means, and whether or not it is analogous to a Direct Message on other platforms.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24837

#usability #mastodon #blameTheUser #DontMakeMeThink

"Privately mention" is a confusing name without further elaboration · Issue #24837 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem I checked how to send someone a private message and clicked the "..." menu button on their profile for that purpose I only found "Privately mention ", and that sounds...

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