Thinking through Tim Chambers' writeup on how to deal with the sometimes very spotty UX of Open Social Web platforms.

This article is a response to Tim Chambers’ recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It’s a pretty great read, and I’m writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.

This is a musing on 7 problems that have been pointed out, with some ideas on what progress has been made to fix them.

  • macniel@feddit.org
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    16 hours ago

    I don’t get your “Sin #2: Navigation Inconsistency” as I don’t have those three Timelines on my instance.

    which shows my followed hashtags and users; then I have discover where I see trending posts/hashtags/users/news and then a live feed which updates in realtime.

    Also why propose to dumbify the nature of the fediverse? If you don’t want to use those features simply don’t, those who want to use those features can continue to do so?

    Is this entire piece just opinion based or did you actually backed it with user testing/feedback (users tend to not be as dumb as an Uxer think they are)