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In 2017, developers competed for who could create worst volume control interface
- devmor 4y agoWhy not just link to the original reddit thread in the tweet?
- satellites 4y agoGotta get those engagement metrics. Also it actually is nice having them all in a row in a tweet thread.
- Rattled 4y agoIt is, until you get to all the Musk and Tate posts under the thread.
- washadjeffmad 4y agoThey do at the end, but using reddit is more annoying than any of those volume controls. Did you try navigating that thread? Over 400 replies and no way to conveniently filter, sort, or search. Not worth it.
- virtualwhys 4y ago> Over 400 replies and no way to conveniently filter, sort, or search. Not worth it. HN has similar issues, although here it's minimalism by design.
- pessimizer 4y agoI actually think they're working on it (at least the paging.) Although I also think there's no hurry, because if a thread on HN (or Reddit for that matter) is too big, it's probably also terrible.
- ilyt 4y agolink to old.reddit.com
- washadjeffmad 4y agoThat's all I use, pared down further still with RES.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoGo to the Reddit link at the end of the post and tell me that that is better. I can't even find anyone's submission.
- devmor 4y agoAh I forgot most people don't have "old reddit" turned on by default. The new UI is absolutely atrocious.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoI still don't see the argument for how Reddit, even its old UI, is better than someone curating the only content that you care about in one place.
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- emmelaich 4y ago8/ actually has a germ of an idea; the only way to really get accurate volume when there are multiple volume knobs (tv, soundbar, tv remote,...) is to measure with a microphone.
- Connor_Creegan1 4y agoEven better: a volume application that measures system sound and auto-mixes output audio to fall within set tolerances around the average decibel reading of that sound.
- em-bee 4y agonot just systemsound but also background noise. if i am listening to an audiobook while out in the street, i frequently have to adjust the volume when the street noise gets to much. unlike listening to music where missing some lyrics might not bother you, for a book every word counts, and if i miss something because a noisy truck just passed by then i have to skip back and repeat.
- Connor_Creegan1 4y ago[dead]
- aaaaaaaaa157674 4y agoI actually liked the one that said: "Make a noise as loud as you want the volume to be". Seems pretty intuitive.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoSounds like hell for people using headphones at night.
- wanderingstan 4y agoI’ve often thought this is a good idea for Alexa/Google-home devices. It’s annoying when speak to mine quietly in the morning and it responds in a loud voice that wakes the whole house.
- rkagerer 4y agoTry "Alexa, turn on Whisper mode" Nothing changes when you speak to her normally. But when she hears you whisper she'll answer back quietly.
- roomey 4y agoIs it just me or is the suggested tweets at the end (that come after the thread) turned to absolute right wing madness? I don't have a log in, and saw, Elon tweet, about 5 Andrew Tate tweets, anti trans, some sort of return to classism thing? Funny thread but holy hell I knew twitter was making sure there was always an Elon tweet or something but.... Like it's almost like a troll what is there now!
- glitchc 4y agoDidn't I say Twitter would turn into Parler 2.0? It's well on its way.
- irrational 4y agoIt’s kind of weird that you saw those. I got to the end and saw “More Tweets” and left. I had to go back and scroll further down to even see what you were talking about.
- roomey 4y agoWell, I will also in future, lesson learned here. I guess I though the "more tweets" would have something related to the thread I was just looking at, they really didn't!
- maxbond 4y agoSoon after Musk took over, the tweets I received by email (which is how I primarily interacted with Twitter) started being stuffed with extreme right-wing stuff from people I definitely didn't subscribe to, like Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro. It completely changed the kind of content I was receiving from memes and interesting observations about technology from people I followed to pretty vile takes about the culture war topic of that particular day. I unsubscribed soon after. It ruined the product for me overnight. (I'll grant I was never really a Twitter user and didn't have friends or much a community there, I was a lurker. So it was an easier decision for me then for others.)
- shiomiru 4y agoSolution: use nitter. No suggested tweets, no bullshit, just the thread. https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915 https://nitter.net/0xDesigner/status/1642554817590566915
- Stratoscope 4y agoI like #14. It teaches you the resistor color codes!
- probablypower 4y agoAs someone who comes here expecting a source of fresh high-quality content, it saddens me to see reddit style reposts on the top of the page.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoI think 6 years is fair game for a repost. Not everyone has seen it.
- arittr 4y agoI hadn’t seen it, but I also as a rule don’t use Reddit. I rely on HN to surface the good stuff to me. Like this!
- christkv 4y agoI always loved the useless utilities competitions. Me and a Buddy made one for measuring your foot size by entering yours monitors size and dpi, putting your foot on the monitor and then adjusting a bottom and top line and then would tell you your shoe number.
- goosedragons 4y agoI thought Apple already did it with QuickTime 4.0 and the thumb wheel volume dial it had: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm
- 1letterunixname 4y agoThat's the post-Tog era.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoIf I submitted a candidate, it would be this: >^ Tiny bright green triangles on blue background buttons immediately next to each other without spacing. The first button is initially volume up and the other button is volume down, except the direction of the arrows and functionality change randomly with every press or tap. EDIT: The wheel of volume is creative.
- anon3242 4y agoIt's sad to say that some basic control UI I have seen are actually worse than these in totally unimaginable ways. For example, how about some huge input latency introduced by unnecessary dizzying animations? How about a volume bar too thin and has no hover transition it becomes irritating trying to grab? How about rather than an easy-to-see handle, we simply use a bar with two colors, where the edge where the colors meet represent the volume level, and make the colors' contrast as low as possible?
- rkagerer 4y agoSome of these are absolutely priceless. I like the resistor bands one.
- hulitu 4y agoAt least they are funny. The volume controls in Android and Windows are atrocious. Apparently someone decided that 10 levels shall be enough for everybody and logarithmic volume sucks.