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A bit off topic, you totally psychologically hijacked me for a kudo. :-P I was curious what the kudos were, so I hovered over the icon. It told me not to move
by Kerrick 14y ago
A bit off topic, you totally psychologically hijacked me for a kudo. :-P
I was curious what the kudos were, so I hovered over the icon. It told me not to move and started filling up, so I waited curiously. Finally, it counted that as a kudo from me to you!
That said, you have a good point. They really have taken a different road recently with their crackdown on the API. They've got every right do do so, and they're making money doing it (always important for a company), but it would've been really interesting to see the equivalent of an API-based SMS-style nearly-ubiquitous service.
- Rudism 14y agoThat happened to me too the first time I saw a link to this blog on HN. But now I'm wiser. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, can't get fooled again.
- dalton 14y agofwiw, this functionality is part of the blogging platform I am using: http://svbtle.com http://svbtle.com
- diego 14y agoYes, and it's dishonest. It happened to me once too.
- darushimo 14y agoAgreed, although I periodically "give" a kudo just to see if the platform has improved to allow one to revoke a kudo. It hasn't. It's a shame actual "kudos" get conflated with "what's this thing do" over and over. Was the design aspect overlooked or intentional? Either way It's a disrespectful UX error.
- speednoise 14y agoIf not intentional originally, defiantly intentional now: http://dcurt.is/unkudo/ http://dcurt.is/unkudo/
- kamikazi 14y agoWow, he's not fooling me with his rationalisations: Here’s what it actually does: when you hover over the button, a CSS transform animation is activated which fills the circle. After 1 second (the length of the animation), it fires a request to the server which increments an otherwise meaningless number by exactly one. Simple response: If that number is meaningless, why give it a fancy animation, why name it 'Kudos' (which even a non-techie would agree is equivalent to a +1, Like whatever) and then why place such a meaningless element next to every meaningful blogpost? If he just wants to amuse himself, may I propose random() in whatever prog. language he uses to update some meaningless local variable. I do like Dustin's blog, but it's sad to see the self-deception going on here from an otherwise smart guy with loads of reputation to lose.