The performance was super slow sometimes. It took maybe 10 seconds for my inbox screen to load. This will be addressed with backend and frontend testing we are already planning.
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Daily Alchemy: Can we make this controversy good?
8d ago“Was Meta justified launching Instagram Plus by moving previously free Instagram features behind a paywall?”
I think an ideal sorting for me that we could implement in the short-term would be something like 1. show me any content with trust>0 (new includes new comments on old posts and also includes posts which I haven’t read yet), sorted by trust. Then 2.... I believe Pete’s getting Jen onboarded to do UX pretty soon so i’m not concerned with specific choices, more one level up (in this cases, differentiation my own replies to threads and what they’re coded as visually on the threads and in the inbox, with other people’s... I’m opposed to time-based styling for these. This is a little from a personal dislike of time varying UX. This is mostly from me imagining diving back into a big thread after, say, two years, and not really remembering exactly where I was interacting at the time and not being... I’m not opposed to the idea in general. My main UX concern is adding too many buttons and which users ignore. Implementation-wise, I’m wondering how the system determines which topic scores to display.... I’m really into the idea of dogfooding; I expect it to help us figure things out quickly (I’m a bit vague on what exactly would improve, though). I’m also worried that dogfooding would have us spend too much time on "stuff that ends up being polish" / "typical" web app features... - b_b...
Ones I pasted in slack already, which Isaac said he has filed: Count of comments on home page is wrong. My post has 3 comments, and it says there are 6.... - b_b...
If someone wanted to UX this thing out, I imagine we could come up with something much more useful. My proposal above is basically a "poor man’s" version of an Inbox view, still maybe good enough to get some mileage out of and get a clearer sense of it, before UX-ing out an even...