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I hate it that I cannot select a substring from a chat bubble these days in any of the chat apps. I just get an option to copy all of it.
by asadm 4y ago
I hate it that I cannot select a substring from a chat bubble these days in any of the chat apps. I just get an option to copy all of it.
- DarthNebo 4y agoApps like Instagram/Pintrest have just made the user feel blunt when they can't even select a snippet of text in the app, following hyperlinks in a comment...or even download media by right-clicking on the web-browser
- PhilipRoman 4y agoTo be fair this is not a new problem. Windows still doesn't let you select text at all in certain GUI contexts. Especially annoying when you need to copy an error message.
- vxNsr 4y agomost error messages you can just click on the error window and press ctrl+c and then paste to your favorite text editor. this works nearly everywhere in W10- that uses native code to display the error, I can't vouch for how well this works in W11 where they butchered everything
- DarthNebo 4y agoSure for native GUIs yes, but this was already something browsers supported & these apps just steam-rolled their 'keep 'em hooked & on platform' plan....I just lose patience when there's no slider on most doom-scroll apps either. Like c'mon....thankfully reddit still has it
- lancefisher 4y agoIt is so annoying! Slack in particular. I screenshot and then copy. Feels like a waste of compute as well as a hassle.
- Tepix 4y agoFacebook is also really spectacular crappy to use on mobile safari in this regard.
- rekoil 4y agoThis is a problem to a degree even in Messages.app. If a message consists of only a phone number for example, it's very hard to hit the pixel you need to long-press to copy it, otherwise all you get is phone number context like whether you want to call the number, create a contact, or add to a contact. If you manage to hit the frame of the bubble you can get the context menu for copying all of it, but that's often quite hard in my experience.
- plibither8 4y agoStaying consistent with their brilliant UX and smart design choices, I like Telegram's approach/solution to chat bubble selection. The first long-press selects the entire bubble, bringing up message-specific options, and second long-press on the substring initiates finer text selection. https://telegram.org/blog/scheduled-reminders-themes#redesigned-message-options https://telegram.org/blog/scheduled-reminders-themes#redesig...
- ratchetbob 4y agoscreenshot the page, and then you can use the iOS text extraction to select a substring :) (serious!)