Anil DashApr 26, 2024
One of the great curses in technology is that, if you’ve ever built a content management system, especially a blogging tool, you can never stop building better ones in your head, even though the actual products in reality never get any better. Here @mathowie falls down the rabbit hole again. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS

Ever since I changed over from Wordpress to Ghost to power this site, I've gotten emails and replies asking me if Ghost is really good and worth making the jump from any other blogging engines. My answer is this: it's currently the least bad one out there, but it is

A Whole Lotta Nothing
Show threadFeralRobotsApr 26, 2024
@anildash @mathowie
man do I ever hate, hate, HATE adaptive UIs. I have used many & have yet to see one that didn't make things harder for me on the average, vs making things easier on one task maybe 30% of the time. The added cognitive load of trying to figure out where the feature I wanted has gone just leaves me irritated until I sigh & accept it as unchangeable. But I never like it.
Show threadesmevane, sorryApr 26, 2024
@FeralRobots @anildash @mathowie I’m suddenly really curious about this. What are some bad examples? Do they make it tough to understand across the board or are they just easy to goof up? (And like, are there just cases where rent seekers in the org are “driving engagement” or whatever nonsense, or are there cases where it isn’t just an enshittified ui?)
Show threadFeralRobotsApr 26, 2024
@ironchamber @anildash @mathowie
OTOMH, the way sharing works in Android, I never know where I'm going to find the target for my share, because Android keeps resorting based on how it conceptualizes 'recency.'
I've also tried out adaptive UIs in several desktop apps over the years - bad-penny pattern there is pruning elements from the menu structures if they're not used within some period of time. (Word did this at one point, IIRC, but I've used others.)
Show threadesmevane, sorry
@FeralRobots @anildash @mathowie oh yeah, I get real annoyed with the sharing menus in iOS as well, same problem. That’s a great example. “Timing out” interactive stuff after a while feels bad too. I guess I was only thinking about stuff surfacing in an empty space gradually, didn’t think about stuff vanishing or reordering unexpectedly
Apr 26, 2024 at 1:20pmWeb