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I feel like this was the highlight; http://gfycat.com/SophisticatedFarawayEthiopianwolf http://gfycat.com/SophisticatedFarawayEthiopianwolf
by SinFulNard 12y ago
I feel like this was the highlight;
http://gfycat.com/SophisticatedFarawayEthiopianwolf http://gfycat.com/SophisticatedFarawayEthiopianwolf
- Kiro 12y agoSophisticated Faraway Ethiopian Wolf?
- Terr_ 12y agoIt's an ID or hashcode, but in English words rather than hexadecimal. Easier for humans to recall, communicate, and error-check.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoAn utter bitch to type compared to a short string of garbage, though, and typing a URL manually (friend gives you a URL over the phone or in person) is the only case I can think of where the URL itself matters.
- vacri 12y agoOn mobile, perhaps, where you're pecking at a keyboard like a chicken, but with a keyboard it's easier to type.
- Sambdala 12y agoI find it the opposite to be honest, but probably only because I'm using swype on mobile. It's easy to hit random characters when touch typing on a full keyboard, but it's much easier to just swipe a couple words together in the url bar than it is to get the correct capitalization as well as having to hold down the key for about a second each time you need a number.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoIf I need a number, I just swipe down from the letter that the number appears under. No press-and-hold needed. Does that not work on your phone?
- Gravityloss 12y agoThey should choose shorter words.
- Terr_ 12y agoWell, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'd rather type out "Ethiopian" than waste time finding out that someone said "bee" instead of "dee" or accidentally putting "e9800998" instead of "e9800098". I've got a ton of pre-arranged neural circuitry, evolved over centuries, trained with decades of live data, all geared towards noticing typos and touch-typing words... It seems shame not to leverage it.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoThere appear to be some snags, though -- "Faraway" is lacking capitalization for the "away" bit, and, even more confusingly, "wolf" isn't capitalized either. Word boundaries aren't always obvious, but I feel certain that the "wolf" of "Ethiopian wolf" is an independent word. So this string is easier to pronounce, but it's actually fairly tricky to communicate and error-check.
- jeorgun 12y agoAre they actually case-sensitive, though? Randomly capitalizing words seems to have no effect to me (unless iOS is sneakily autocorrecting it), so it's something of a moot point.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoCapitalizing random letters in the URL didn't have any effect for me either. So I'm a little confused as to why they show the capitalization they do, but I withdraw the idea that there's a usability problem.
- Terr_ 12y agoActually, "faraway" is a whole word, used as an adjective as a location, e.g. "exotic faraway places". I feel you wouldn't use it for actual locations, though, e.g. "it was too far away from me".
- thaumasiotes 12y agoYou'll note that I characterized "Ethiopianwolf" as being even more confusing than "Faraway", since "wolf" is definitely a separate word and it isn't clear whether "away" is or not. That unclarity still makes it difficult to communicate the capitalization in the case where capitalization matters.
- Variance 12y agoGfycat seems to use a randomized adjective-adjective-animal_name for their URL structure. Certainly more memorable than the imgur six-character alphaneumeric string.