Gregory's ServerI'm going to stick to that chopped fruit you get in the little plastic boxes marked "Fruit". Regular fruit needs to take some UX lessons from those guys
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     @tomw it is a funny point but you're likely getting annoyed replies (which I can't see because "fediverse stuff") as you appear to be defending a deeply important issue by using a false comparison. Fruit complexity does not let the fediverse off the hook my sentiment. Mastodon has serious UX issues, and onboarding issues. some users have serious ideology issues, resembling linuxians and feel the need to make fun of 'noobs. the protocol activitypub has issues regarding privacy (there is none) and problems with after post audience changes. there is no de-activate account feature.  @katharina_buholzer well, you need to be more specific when you mention UI issues. I'm the maintainer of a niche client, tooter, on a niche mobile os, SailfishOs, and we likes are just trying to keep up with the bugs. This is unpaid work we do because we're into community company and not community as commodity. Onboarding is an offensive word, btw. I do not know wha onboarding might be offensive. It is a short word for the process of getting people onto a platform. the UX issues I mention are more related to the web interface. I am aware of some clients out there enhancing the experience. As a rule: I do not recommend using any social media app on a smartphone. @katharina_buholzer when people, in corporate speak, say onboarding, i see cattle being prodded onto wagons to the slaughterhouse. Or worse. Ok, WHICH mastodon web client? The 'official one' I suppose?  @scottjenson @tomw fruit interfaces are also remarkably consistent and thus, forward-thinking parents teach them in early childhood already; as we all know, familiarity is intuitive.  @bri_seven @simulo @scottjenson We have come full circle back to the UX problems of fruit @tomw sometimes you're not even supposed to eat the fruit. You ignore the fruit and eat the root. So confusing! Someone really needs to streamline this whole plant issue. @tomw And the ridiculous names! They even named some fruits after colours (orange), birds (kiwi) or mental states (bananas). Torn between replying to the sincere posts about UX and the ones that stick to the topic in hand, namely fruit @tomw This is the kind of thing that Twitter never did well after it got big. Smaller spaces are always, always ready for a techie sidebar. @tomw Tried searching for various replies to this but the network was defederated or something  @tomw clearly we should all agree to eat the same fruit and discontinue all the others. Itβs the only way to be fair to ppl who donβt want to have to make a choice.  @tomw My favourite fruit might well be the watermelon. All the cool guys at work are using it, but man, does it have UX issues. There's no way you'll get to feast on some nice, juicy watermelon unless you do at least 10 minutes of careful slicing and chopping. Dismal UX, I'm telling you. Watermelon is the vi editor of fruit. |
Getting some annoyed responses to this. Look it's up to you if you don't want to take UX seriously, but you can't expect fruit to reach a mainstream audience if you don't solve the onboarding issues