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Pro-tip to those unused to mastodon web-ui: you can click the eye on the top right of the center column (next to Back) to expand all posts at once.
by Aissen 3y ago
Pro-tip to those unused to mastodon web-ui: you can click the eye on the top right of the center column (next to Back) to expand all posts at once.
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoHow ironic, a post about a user interface disaster needing an explanatory pro-tip for its UI.
- Aissen 3y agoLuckily, this one will have less dire consequences.
- 4gotunameagain 3y ago[flagged]
- Aissen 3y agoLess dire direct consequences then. If we go down this path, I'm sure there must be other UIs that have much higher use that the one in the article that might have even worse impact at scale. Or even niche use (but more users) in critical (medical…) systems.
- dsego 3y agoThat's objectively terrible UX.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- gpderetta 3y agoMaybe my expectations are very very low at this point. But I thought it was ok.
- metabagel 3y agoAt least there was no popup a few seconds after starting to read the article.
- CogitoCogito 3y agoDoes anyone know the reasoning for not having the posts expanded by default?
- neffo 3y agoPosts aren't limited to an arbitrary length in activity pub, this is the same UI logic for showing a thread in the main feed. Twitter does something similar for bluecheck long posts.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoWouldn't it be better handled by people following accounts they want to and unfollowing bad actors?
- SiempreViernes 3y agoHow does this apply to a discussion about the logged out view?
- CogitoCogito 3y agoIt's hard for me to understand the advantages of this setup. Given the confusion in this thread, it's clearly poorly implemented.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 3y agoIf you want to jump to the conversation/replies to the OP's multi-post, this is a lot less scrolling than if each part of the OP's multi-post was automatically expanded. There's an advantage of the setup for you. This might be desirable as it could encourage participating in the conversation, though an argument can be made that it comes with a risk of people skipping the content and joining the conversation with incomplete context. The fade effect on the line of text shown is in line with how "click to show more" is done in many places all over the web. It took me a thoroughly minimal amount of mental capacity to realize there was more. I clicked, and got more. It's really not that confusing.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoIs there a way, as either the reader or the writer, to set that as a default? Or do you need to remember it and manually do it every time you read a thread like this?