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if you RTFA he did actually read the dialog box (which is where he found out that it would delete the stars) he just didn't notice the 1 line in a 30+ line gene
by sbarre 5y ago
if you RTFA he did actually read the dialog box (which is where he found out that it would delete the stars) he just didn't notice the 1 line in a 30+ line generic modal.
He accepts responsibility for what he did, but points out the very real opportunity to improve the UI/UX of a very destructive operation with real contextual data about what is about to be destroyed.
- pharrington 5y agoYou can only confirm the dialog box by typing in that line you're saying he didn't notice.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoReads article and somehow misses it's entire thoroughly examined point, chides author for not paying attention.
- pharrington 5y agoIf I understood the blog post correctly, the author wants the "You will PERMANENTLY lose: All stars and watchers from the repository" to be changed to "[...] X stars and Y watchers..." Which I agree would be a better UI.
- cycomanic 5y agoLike so often we can easily judge this by how willing we would be to accept the same behaviour in real life and I'm pretty certain that most would not accept an UI where you could e.g. just give away your house by writing the wrong adress into some form.
- farmerstan 5y agoI did RTFA. I do not accept the excuse that he didn’t read it properly. He skimmed it because he thought it was the same box but it wasn’t. He even admits that it contained the exact information that he was looking for. I don’t see any way he can complain.
- sbarre 5y agoOk then. I hope others are less judgmental of you than you are of them next you make a mistake in life.
- farmerstan 5y agoI take ownership over my mistakes. I don’t try to blame others. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.
- sbarre 5y agoI believe the world would be a better place if we all showed a bit more compassion towards each other, but let's agree to disagree.
- farmerstan 5y agoI am very compassionate towards their loss. It must suck to have mistakenly destroyed their community. However I draw the line when they falsely blame others for their own mistake. You can be compassionate for a mistake and still insist someone take ownership over this own careless error instead of blaming others. You mistake compassion for “let them do or say whatever they want because they are a victim”.
- sbarre 5y agoIf all you read out of that article was blaming, then you didn't read it very closely. The main takeway that I took from that article was the seemingly low effort improvement that could be made to the UI/UX of that action, which could help other people not make the same mistake. That's not about blaming Github vs. themselves, it's a reasonable critique of an existing system and looking for ways to make it better for everyone. Unless you think there is no room for improvement in that system at all.
- farmerstan 5y ago