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Is this really an issue for anyone? This seems like a whole lot of complaining over functionality that actually works fairly well in my opinion.

mholt 8y ago
Yes, it's real. And the lag often causes me to accidentally share to the wrong place == really bad.
- simsla 8y ago
  Same here. Interface elements still shifting around after a second is very bad UX.
  - diggan 8y ago
    Ohyes, and this happens all over the web (looking at you Twitter) and even in the browsers themselves, Firefox is the only browser whose results in the address bar that doesn't jump around. Chrome and Safari are literally unusable for me because of this.
agumonkey 8y ago
to me it's 1) quite suboptimal 2) becomes bloated with time
sgc 8y ago
I use share every day. It sucks.
SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
Agreed, it's one of those things I've never really given a second thought to as it's so frictionless. I think there's always room for improvement though and there are some good suggestions in here.
mistermann 8y ago
On Samsung TouchWiz it is BRUTAL, one of the worst UI designs I've ever encountered.
zmk_ 8y ago
Not only have I shared to the wrong app on multiple occasions, the direct sharing is useless. I mostly use one app for IMs, but the direct share is always populated by another app. But this is also not only Google's issue. If you direct share to a contact in Messenger, instead of just sharing whatever you wanted to, Messenger opens the share interface where you can select other people to share to. This is even though you wanted to share to just one.
netsharc 8y ago
On my phone the share menu is very fast, but every time I open it, the icons are all over the place... I like to watch YouTube on Kodi, there's an Android app which can be used as a remote control, and load URLs into the playlist. In binge mode I see the related videos and think "Oh that also looks interesting", so I "share" a lot of videos within a few seconds. Video 1, hit share, look for the remote control app icon, press it, done. Second video, hit share, hunt for the icon because it has moved... Same thing every time! Luckily my phone is quick enough that the share menu doesn't take forever to load, and I've accepted that the icons move around, only quietly swearing "Stupid programmers" every time, but it's still stupid.

mholt 8y ago

Yes, it's real. And the lag often causes me to accidentally share to the wrong place == really bad.

simsla 8y ago
Same here. Interface elements still shifting around after a second is very bad UX.
- diggan 8y ago
  Ohyes, and this happens all over the web (looking at you Twitter) and even in the browsers themselves, Firefox is the only browser whose results in the address bar that doesn't jump around. Chrome and Safari are literally unusable for me because of this.

agumonkey 8y ago

to me it's 1) quite suboptimal 2) becomes bloated with time

sgc 8y ago

I use share every day. It sucks.

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago

Agreed, it's one of those things I've never really given a second thought to as it's so frictionless. I think there's always room for improvement though and there are some good suggestions in here.

mistermann 8y ago

On Samsung TouchWiz it is BRUTAL, one of the worst UI designs I've ever encountered.

zmk_ 8y ago

Not only have I shared to the wrong app on multiple occasions, the direct sharing is useless. I mostly use one app for IMs, but the direct share is always populated by another app. But this is also not only Google's issue. If you direct share to a contact in Messenger, instead of just sharing whatever you wanted to, Messenger opens the share interface where you can select other people to share to. This is even though you wanted to share to just one.

netsharc 8y ago

On my phone the share menu is very fast, but every time I open it, the icons are all over the place... I like to watch YouTube on Kodi, there's an Android app which can be used as a remote control, and load URLs into the playlist. In binge mode I see the related videos and think "Oh that also looks interesting", so I "share" a lot of videos within a few seconds. Video 1, hit share, look for the remote control app icon, press it, done. Second video, hit share, hunt for the icon because it has moved... Same thing every time! Luckily my phone is quick enough that the share menu doesn't take forever to load, and I've accepted that the icons move around, only quietly swearing "Stupid programmers" every time, but it's still stupid.