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App Will Help You Follow Election Results Without Triggering Your Anxiety
- mmastrac 6y agoPossibly better to link to the Guardian's page directly: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/29/live-us-election-results-app-alert-guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/29/live-us-electi...
- curiousgal 6y agoThis, whoever decided to pin a video in the middle of the article on mobile is an idiot.
- Tempest1981 6y agoStrangely, that page doesn't seem to have a link to the app stores (unless I missed it)
- jdndbfbf 6y agoWhy does it have to be an app? I don't want to install your garbage spyware on my phone. Just make an extremely simple webpage without any ads or other garbage.
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- marketingPro 6y agoI was surprised how many different permissions they wanted for a news app. Also, does Apple list permissions? I couldn't find it on their website (easily). I did find Google play store permissions easily.
- Willamin 6y agoApple's App store doesn't list permissions, but permissions are not given until the user is asked for each individually. I think it's against the app store guidelines to require permissions that aren't actually necessary (eg. requiring microphone permission before displaying a news article to the user).
- alexfringes 6y agoYou realize the app recommended is the Guardian’s and uses updating notifications to present in a predictable manner and context? This seems like an improvement in user experience over keeping this in a tab along all the other tabs and having to meander past your regular distractions, many of which might present results in a less restrained manner than what is being advocated for here. It seems like you saw the word app, made a throwaway, and ranted about the word app.
- thisisbrians 6y agoI agree. It's thoughtfully done and easier than refreshing a web page. Not worthy of the shade thrown, IMO. If you don't like it, don't use it.
- badwolf 6y agohttp://www.justtellmewhowon.com http://www.justtellmewhowon.com
- m52go 6y agoEven this site seems to use WordPress and some other frameworks. So unnecessary...just need a simple static page. Oh and no HTTPS. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- capableweb 6y agoNo joke. The website pulls down about 1MB of content, takes 1s to load and shows "NO ONE YET. KEEP CHECKING BACK" + one image (which is 72KB). No wonder most non-webdevs think the web is bloated.
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- amelius 6y agoIt's really your phone manufacturer's fault for giving apps a higher status than web-pages.
- ars 6y agoMost of the large newspapers and media sites will have this. A live updating page with the results as they come in, and often with their predictions once they are able to call the results. Just pick whichever media site you like best.
- st1x7 6y agoIt doesn't. You can just use the Google widget for it - https://www.google.com/search?&q=us+election+results https://www.google.com/search?&q=us+election+results
- bassman9000 6y agoI think the poster was concerned about privacy.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoAre webpages allowed to edit the contents of already-sent notifications?
- bigbubba 6y agoUsing a notification system at all for this sort of thing runs counter to the premise of low anxiety design.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoI think a single persistent notification is lower anxiety than a constant stream of them
- bigbubba 6y agoLower still is no notifications, or a single notification when the result is final.
- minimuffins 6y agoIf you really have anxiety about this I recommend not engaging with any new software at all and just wake up tomorrow and see who won.
- rideontime 6y agoTomorrow? More like December, if we're lucky.
- dhagz 6y agoAnd that's the source of anxiety, at least for me.
- z3ncyberpunk 6y agoOh please.
- thisisbrians 6y agoWish it were that cut and dried, but — depends on the earliest callable swing states.
- c0nsumer 6y agoIt's pretty unlikely there'll be a definitive result by morning.
- pjc50 6y agoIf I did want to find out what's going on, which I don't because I'm a Brit and several time zones away from the action, I would simply open Twitter.
- sJ646U9k6c6gME9 6y agoHow is Twitter a source of information rather than gossip, opinion, and outright information warfare conducted by both sides?
- CharlesW 6y ago> How is Twitter a source of information rather than gossip, opinion, and outright information warfare conducted by both sides? Your Twitter experience will be wildly different depending on who you follow. If you do this with some care, and also don't take everything at 100% face value, you too can have a low-misinformation Twitter experience.
- sJ646U9k6c6gME9 6y agoI quit Twitter in 2015 when my supposedly level-headed friends (most of whom are fellow software engineers) lost their minds and switched to posting only about politics. Twitter immediately lost all utility. To me, politics has little to do with good governance, and is thus a kind of misinformation or spam. I opted right out of all that. I’ve been much happier ever since.
- CharlesW 6y agoI think you're smart for cutting that toxicity out of your life. I quit Facebook a couple years ago I've never regretted it. Luckily Twitter wasn't a "friends" platform for me, and so far I'm doing okay using Lists and being generous with blocking.
- Jtsummers 6y agoI didn't quit FB, but I stopped looking at it. I maintained it strictly to organize group events which it was very useful for. The feed, however, has become garbage (as demonstrated again when I perused it this morning for grins).
- kyleblarson 6y agoWho in their right mind would intentionally let The Guardian be their sole source of news on this topic?
- throwaway2245 6y agoIn my experience, The Guardian has often been the fastest at updating with accurate count data.
- marketingPro 6y agoTao te ching has helped me eliminate Political Anxiety.
- jfengel 6y agoOr you could, ya know, just wait until tomorrow. The outcome is going to be the same whether you find it out right this minute or next week. Nothing at all is meaningful until at least the polls close on the west coast, and probably not until long after. Go to bed and find out when you wake up. I promise that nothing is going to happen overnight that requires your action.
- redvenom 6y agoUsually after an election I just wait until someone tells me what happened. When Trump first won back in the day, some dude in the gym just came up and told me with a forlorn look on his face.
- gumby 6y agoMy son told me at breakfast — it was the first election he could vote in. But like you I figured the results would be the same regardless so I had read a book and gone to bed.
- borski 6y agoThat is, unfortunately, not a possible scenario now due to COVID.
- Aaronstotle 6y agoMy gym is open, so it's still possible
- thisisbrians 6y agoFWIW, a gym is about the last kind of place that should be open right now, based on what we know about how this particular plague spreads. No judgement from me either way, but take care of yourself out there.
- brosinante 6y agoAs a robot with no feelings or worries, I do not see how you people just refuse to wait until ((friendlyDate.tomorrow)) Yeah, snarky but whatevs. The assurance of control helps, even if it’s just checking your phone is still working while expecting a call.
- tathougies 6y agoI don't understand political anxiety. In the United States, elections even of the president, do not ultimately matter a whole lot. There are several layers of government and several governmental co-equal bodies such that the election of any one person is not super important. And that's the way it should be: https://reason.com/2020/11/02/make-elections-not-matter-so-much-again/ https://reason.com/2020/11/02/make-elections-not-matter-so-m...
- thisisbrians 6y agoWhile usually there's some truth in this sort of sentiment, this simply isn't about the election of one individual this go round. It's about perpetuating and legitimizing the overreach of one particular political party that seeks to keep itself in power despite the conventions and rules that should allow it to be removed — see: autocracy.
- anupamchugh 6y agoYou could have easily titled this as "Download The Guardian App"