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Not a very good UI if it requires a Hacker News story to let me know about it.
by mtraven 15y ago
Not a very good UI if it requires a Hacker News story to let me know about it.
- ghshephard 15y agoDiscoverability isn't the be-all/end-all in User Interfaces.
- tcard 15y agoIt's just a shortcut, not essential. You have help links in each Markdown-capable textbox anyway.
- callum85 15y agoBut you do now know about it. People telling each other about a hidden feature (via HN or whatever) is a common and valid way for non-essential features to be discovered. If you designed UIs assuming that that sort of user-to-user education doesn't exist, you'd be forced occasionally to reject a potentially handy power-user feature on the basis that there's no good place to promote it without cluttering the design. Which would be a shame.