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Yeah--as a user I've even seen apps where e.g. my own post immediately appears in the feed and thought "I see what you did there!" Not as disagreement, but to
by twotwotwo 3y ago
Yeah--as a user I've even seen apps where e.g. my own post immediately appears in the feed and thought "I see what you did there!"
Not as disagreement, but to help map the problem space out more, I think faking it is relatively easy for apps built around a few fundamental flows that are done a lot (like Mastodon) and trickiest when the app has many flows built to capture the many little wrinkles of some task/business/organization. If you're using an app to do the work of a school registrar or HR department or something you both probably expect your action to show up right when you hit Submit and also have lots of distinct actions you might do. It's then that it seems especially tricky to give users a reasonable-feeling view of things while building on an eventually-consistent foundation.
- vidarh 3y agoOh, absolutely, this trick absolutely only works well for specific types of apps. You need it to be relatively self-contained, and not need to be reflected elsewhere if the user clicks around, or it's worse than just giving the user a "submitted. check back soon" message, in which case doing it "properly" is best. Mastodon type apps are absolutely the best case scenario for this type of thing, because "everything" is async.