Mastodawn

I am on Android. I received a notification from Discord. I reached up to swipe it and dismiss it. Instead my finger brushed it wrong and I activated a button labeled "Mute th".

Then had to spend a few minutes figuring out what "th" was and how to undo what I'd done.

My extremely uncommon opinions are that the right-swipe-to-dismiss gesture has never been good; and that Android made a huge mistake making notifications interactive popovers instead of using the original ticker in the timebar.

Yes I am still angry about interface changes that are over ten years old

Cassandra 🔜 SanFran May 15

@mcc I just ranted out loud to no one in particular this morning about Android getting rid of the hardware "accept call" and "hang up" buttons when I couldn't find the hang up button on the touchscreen while managing a dog on a leash.

I am also angry about more than decade-old interface regressions.

@mcc I'm constantly swiping away notifications when I'm just trying to swipe the shade up or down

Henrik Pauli May 15

@bogpunk @mcc Endless amount of frustration when my finger just so happens to be beyond the threshold by 0.01° so the thing does the other thing instead.

@mcc and you're right

@mcc When they change an interface, they should always leave the option to use the old interface. Modifying the interface is always annoying to established users.

It should be a law.

Oh yes, and every software package should have a command line option.

Hugo Mills May 15

@mcc Only 10 years? Everything after NT 4.0 and Gnome 2.0 was a mistake...

@darkling over 10

Zoe : Void -> a May 15

@mcc I'm still mad about Microsoft darkhorsing and killing Nokia/Meego and that was 15 years ago

nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️May 15

@mcc they don’t stop being wrong!!!

@splendorr Designers are like "users always complain about changes but then they get used to them after a month" meanwhile I still want the Gmail interface from 2005 back

@mcc Today I was at a party and at some point we complained about Android UI changes. More recent than ten years old, but this still resonates with me.

John Harris May 15

@mcc
Oh yes, I am constantly frustrated with phone interfaces, while command lines rarely give me trouble

ShadSterling May 15

@rodneylives @mcc every now and then I see someone wonder why we haven’t replaced the rabbithole of jank that is the command line; this is why

Henrik Pauli May 15

@mcc That they keep reducing the size of the buttons in notifications is just the cherry on top.

Like I genuinely like e.g. the option to immediately archive an email for example, but the amount of time I missed the damn button by a few pixels is beyond reasonable. It used to be a lot better when it was introduced...