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> Also - too many clicks per word. They’re also too far away. I’m on a laptop and I have to keep moving the cursor up and down just to confirm. Give each optio
by latexr 4mo ago
> Also - too many clicks per word.
They’re also too far away. I’m on a laptop and I have to keep moving the cursor up and down just to confirm. Give each option a letter or number and let me press it to choose the answer¹.
¹ There is (was?) some service for forms which does that and it works quite well. I think it was Typeform, but I just opened the website to check and—of course—it’s now just plastered with mentions of AI so I lost interest in verifying.
- analog8374 4mo agoit's intentional. therefore testing vocab isn't the point. I'm guessing it's testing our susceptibility to machine-generated compliments
- latexr 4mo ago> it's intentional. What is? > I'm guessing it's testing our susceptibility to machine-generated compliments I fail to see the point. For one, the compliments aren’t particularly good or interesting; for another, I didn’t even read them (I just went back to check after your comment), I simply clicked when seeing green.
- analog8374 4mo agotoo many clicks per word. and the distance between click points. that's intentional. well the point would be to see how susceptible you are to that. They're figuring out where your cost vs reward tipping point is.
- philipwhiuk 4mo agoThere's a small handful, mostly QI-inspired.
- latexr 4mo agoI think you’re reading too much into it. I think it’s just a common design pattern that was copied and is clearly optimised for mobile, where the distance doesn’t matter that much. Anyway, if they were running metrics on that they just became useless because I automated responding to it a bunch of times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586#48600403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586#48600403
- scubbo 4mo agoCan you elaborate? Who are the imagined "they", and in what way are they conducting experiments with or monetizing this investigation?
- analog8374 4mo agosome people will crawl a mile for a promise. some people get skinny on a diet of promises
- tancop 4mo agoits just a lazy clone of duolingo. its a ux pattern that works on mobile for a lesson with 10 complex questions where you have to retry the ones you failed until you get it right. when its 100 abcd questions on desktop its just annoying for no reason