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Can you explain why it is laughable?

• _bxg1 7y ago
  For one, there's a lot more on the page than the linear feed. And then each tweet has several actions you can take on it, a drop down menu, etc. What was a single click becomes two or more keystrokes. When you factor in the other views that are even less linear - settings, editing your profile, messaging - you run into a long tail of cases that are poorly suited to a keyboard alone. This tends to be the case: a hyper-focused UI may work a little better with a keyboard than with a mouse, but a mouse does a much better job supporting the wide range of different cases out there and giving users a way to explore and discover the UI.
  • htns 7y ago
    There are a lot of people who never use a mouse while browsing the web! That's possible with browser extensions like Vimium, which show you a keyboard shortcut on every link when you press a key. "Two or more keystrokes" is a lot faster than using the mouse with that scheme.
  • dkersten 7y ago
    The things you mention as less efficient with a keyboard actually sound like plus points for a keyboard to me, personally. Especially messaging. Besides, you can create a keyboard centric UI without removing mouse support if you really want. It’s just that keyboard should be treated as a first class interaction method, instead of an almost tacked on accessibility feature.