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You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.
by javery 15y ago
You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.
- pclark 15y agothey really should save this kind of preference to their database so that it follows the user across other sessions and machines too. and then add a setting in their account preferences to opt back in to the right hand click lightbox.
- webjunkie 15y agoMaybe it's also useful to sync this settings to the Mac App and possibly other apps... an email every time it gets changed would also be useful, in case someone with your login decides to change it. And finally, in teams one should be able to control which member can change this setting for himself, and which not, and the team lead can also set a default what should happen on the right click.. Yeah, that's it.
- pgrote 15y agoWe're also going to need a way for someone to report on the right click actions. Log the action, build an alert system to distribute and then auto generate an email letting someone know the alert is sent. The reporting should have control levels so the team lead can designate whether someone can see this report, share this report or print this report.
- pclark 15y agoand give me an API to query if a user likes the right click override setting off and on. "Gravatar for right click settings."
- psychotik 15y agoAlso A/B test the pop-over dialog to see what works best.
- dsl 15y agoand a multivariate engine to test different font face/wording combinations for logo download conversion tracking.
- josscrowcroft 15y agobetter build in social sharing too, "I just right-clicked and won!"
- eslachance 15y agoCan someone get on crunching numbers so I can get a pie chart on how many users disabled the right-click, how many people never right-clicked (hey, maybe a tutorial-like tooltip bubble that says "Right-click me!" ?), trends in right-click usage over time and separated by geo localisation? That should be trivial to do, I'm sure.
- richbradshaw 14y agoPersonally, I'd use a combination of Dropbox, iCloud as well as an arbitrary SFTP server. They could use the SSH key you register with them to allow seamless log in, and also encryption of the setting on Dropbox and iCloud.
- colonel_panic 15y agoAm I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?
- cocoflunchy 15y agoWell I middle-click...
- trustfundbaby 15y agoyes
- WiseWeasel 15y agoRequires two hands, but I often find it easier to control-click on links to open in a new tab, and that still works in this case.
- Seth_Kriticos 15y agoI open new tabs with middle click (scroll wheel click). That works too. It also works for closing tabs.
- jwallaceparker 15y agoI do this too. CTRL-click to open a new tab. That is NOT working for me on a Mac.
- armandososa 15y agoIt's command + click on mac.
- mmahemoff 15y agoIt's probably overkill to save the preference. A good-and-still-simple solution would be to include a (non-linked) replica image of the original button along with an explanatory link to github.com.
- OzzyB 15y agoBravo. This is so simple, I can't believe I didn't think of it -- just put a "github homepage" link/image on that pop-up that users can then right-click to their hearts content. And here I was thinking about adding cookies and saving client-state. :)
- stevenw36 15y agoYou could say the same thing about what Github is doing with the interception of the right-click event. The "about us" page would be a better place to put links to logo. Leave the user's right-click alone.
- WiseWeasel 15y agoThe point is they found that members of the press or bloggers who want these assets in the first place are not bothering to drill down to the Press section; they're just grabbing it right from the root index, causing sub-optimal assets to propagate through the media, which reflects poorly on the brand. This way, Github makes sure they're getting publication-friendly versions of their logo when people do that. Ultimately, ensuring their brand is well-represented in the media was deemed more important than avoiding inconvenience to a few power users.
- skeletonjelly 15y agoThe complexity is already there. GH went to the trouble of doing it, why not add another button that sets a cookie. Compared to what they've done it's peanuts. Heck, if the website was here (https://github.com/github https://github.com/github) they'd get a pull request.
- razorstorm 15y agoBy the same type of abrasive, quick to conclude mindset, you must be a different type of program manager - you believe that just because you do not use a certain feature, no one else should be allowed to use it either.