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My point is that it doesn't matter whether you see it as derogatory or not, because here we are arguing about it instead of Urbit (whatever it is), and therefor
by pgt 7y ago
My point is that it doesn't matter whether you see it as derogatory or not, because here we are arguing about it instead of Urbit (whatever it is), and therefore it is bad marketing.
The goal of good UX is to eliminate question marks, except for the questions you want people to ask. Usually those are, "Cool, how much is it?" or "Where do I get it?"
I still don't know what Urbit is.
- lliamander 7y agoHaving now read the article, I think have a better understanding of how they intend a non-technical person to use Urbit. Take link sharing for example. Instead of going to a 3rd party site like Reddit or Hacker News, I would simply have a link sharing app on my Urbit virtual computer. Because I host the app, I have control of the links I share and who I share with, but I don't have to go through the rigmarole of actually deploying a LAMP stack (or whatever) or dealing with configuring a public IP address, firewall, CDN, authz/authn, domain name registration, or any of that stuff. I just say "share these links with these other people" and it just works. Now, I don't know how that works under the hood. I don't even know if that actually works today (looks like it does?). But so long as I right about how I'm supposed to actually use Urbit, then I'd say the article was successful.