Christoffer OlsenLotta complaining about the unintuitiveness and learning curve of Mastodon from people who use Excel on a daily basis.
Jeff Bell@ctolsen people get paid to use Excel
Ashton@ashton_k @ctolsen True - but I don't think it does quickly enough for people who aren't techies. I'm interested in this stuff and want Mastodon to succeed on philosophical grounds. I was willing to learn it and am having fun here.
I think signing up is a lot of work if you just want to look at pictures of other people's cats, or read the news a bit. There are plenty of places to do that.
Austen Puleston@ctolsen I’ve seen enough Excel abominations to no longer take that as a mark of any kind of technical skill or ability 🙈. Key business processes running through excel workbooks that no one understands any more is far too common.
Benjamin@ctolsen Time to meet them where they're at. I'll get the ball rolling, does someone want to start writing up the code for the 'Home' tab? 😜
Rzetelny@ctolsen it tells us a lot about how poor UX here is.
R0B0 G0D@ctolsen People want to wear the simple, ugly crocs they're used to rather than take the time to learn how to lace shoes that look and feel much better to wear, is what yesterday has taught me.
Matilda
Sarah@ctolsen I mean, yeah, but a lot of people who use Excel actually don't know that it's unintuitive because they only understand 1% of what's available. For a lot of people it's really a glorified listmaking software.
But also people agonize more over social decisions, even ones they are reassured are irrelevant. The biggest barrier of entry to me was just picking a server, because it feels like being the new kid at school & having to pick a lunch table.