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The UI on social media is unfixable trash at this point. If you comment, and someone replied to you, and you click the notification, most of the time you'll se
by eternityforest 3y ago
The UI on social media is unfixable trash at this point.
If you comment, and someone replied to you, and you click the notification, most of the time you'll see random unrelated comments.
I really think we should go back to the pure section/thread/post model, with pagination and jump-to-time date pickers.
Since the news feed is vaguely useful-ish, you could keep some kind of aggregated recent posts, and notifications are helpful... but otherwise... Social software was perfected in the proboards era.
I almost think the model would be just fine for personal sites with a few tweaks. Pretty much anything you can do on the web, can be done as a forum acceptably well. People have used them like Wikis, people share files, they sell stuff.
Everyone understands it, it's got almost zero surprise factor, the ability to have signatures keeps the focus on individual people instead of just using people as human ChatGPT servers in matrix pods to help generate more low effort keyboard diarrhoea to scroll.