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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:41:40 JST Anil Dash

   • Matthew Haughey

   One of the great curses in technology is that, if you’ve ever built a content management system, especially a blogging tool, you can never stop building better ones in your head, even though the actual products in reality never get any better. Here @mathowie falls down the rabbit hole again. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:05:24 JST esmevane, sorry

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @anildash @mathowie 14 years of trying over and over again here 🥲

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:10:13 JST esmevane, sorry

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @anildash @mathowie the adaptive ui and the microblog core are both killer observations, really cool to imagine a distributable post engine that works like that

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:13:14 JST esmevane, sorry

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @FeralRobots @anildash @mathowie I’m suddenly really curious about this. What are some bad examples? Do they make it tough to understand across the board or are they just easy to goof up? (And like, are there just cases where rent seekers in the org are “driving engagement” or whatever nonsense, or are there cases where it isn’t just an enshittified ui?)

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:13:15 JST FeralRobots

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @anildash @mathowie
     man do I ever hate, hate, HATE adaptive UIs. I have used many & have yet to see one that didn't make things harder for me on the average, vs making things easier on one task maybe 30% of the time. The added cognitive load of trying to figure out where the feature I wanted has gone just leaves me irritated until I sigh & accept it as unchangeable. But I never like it.

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:20:50 JST esmevane, sorry

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @FeralRobots @anildash @mathowie oh yeah, I get real annoyed with the sharing menus in iOS as well, same problem. That’s a great example. “Timing out” interactive stuff after a while feels bad too. I guess I was only thinking about stuff surfacing in an empty space gradually, didn’t think about stuff vanishing or reordering unexpectedly

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:20:51 JST FeralRobots

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @ironchamber @anildash @mathowie
     OTOMH, the way sharing works in Android, I never know where I'm going to find the target for my share, because Android keeps resorting based on how it conceptualizes 'recency.'
     I've also tried out adaptive UIs in several desktop apps over the years - bad-penny pattern there is pruning elements from the menu structures if they're not used within some period of time. (Word did this at one point, IIRC, but I've used others.)

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:24:48 JST esmevane, sorry

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @FeralRobots @anildash @mathowie “Major detriment to power users” seems like enough of a problem on its own. I’ll have to dig for that research at some point. Would it be under “adaptive interfaces” or something like that?

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:24:49 JST FeralRobots

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @ironchamber @anildash @mathowie
     There was actually a fair body of ergonomics research on this, but the literature I'm familiar with is pre-web. I'd have to look up for specifics (I still have that ergonomics topics reader from school) but my recollection is that they worked OK for a small set of users with very narrow needs, but were a major detriment to power users. IIRC there was speculation that it would also tend to narrow the options that were used through a negative feedback loop.

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     FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:46:30 JST FeralRobots

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @ironchamber @anildash @mathowie
     What I read in school (early 90s) focused mostly on menu systems for applications; hypertext usability wasnt a big thing yet. But now that I think of it there've been Nielsen-Norman Group articles over the years. They're AI shills now but for a long time there was solid stuff in there, even if one had to adjust some for Jakob's massive ego.

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 22:46:30 JST esmevane, sorry

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     • Matthew Haughey

     @FeralRobots @anildash @mathowie thanks! That seems like a really solid lead, I appreciate it

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:05:19 JST Anil Dash

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     • Scott Yoshinaga

     @kimonostereo I’ve been using @eleventy on @glitchdotcom and I love it. I can just write when I wanna write, and there’s fun easy stuff to tinker with when I wanna do that.

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     Scott Yoshinaga (kimonostereo@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 07:05:20 JST Scott Yoshinaga

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     @anildash what are you currently using for your CMS? BTW I almost got to meet you when I was visiting SixApart in SF wayyy back when… you were in a meeting in someone's office.