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   Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 06:24:58 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

   When did every web / tooltip / notification acknowledgment under the sun become "Got It" instead of "OK"?

   Any why does it annoy me so much?

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 07:29:54 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • Alison Wilder
     • pak0st

     @pak0st @alisynthesis You both mentioned this, and I wasn't able to put an exact reason to the annoyance until now. But this feels like the answer.

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     pak0st (pak0st@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 07:29:55 JST pak0st

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     @killyourfm because it's condescending? I don't know, it feels like something a corporation would try to do to appear "empathetic" or establish "connection" 😄

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     skry (skry@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 08:06:45 JST skry

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     @killyourfm “Got it” is bad #ux both because it’s an American colloquial expression and because it’s a response to notifying about something that people already don’t want and have no choices in.

     “OK” is not good in this case bc people do not want to OK things they don’t want. Similarly, “Submit” to computers and companies is a poor label.

     “Close” is a much better choice for this. <What the action does from a user’s point of view> is the best solution for the default and terrible “submit”.

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 11:17:49 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • skry

     @skry I can 100% get behind this reasoning.