@codinghorror said:I feel like people who have keyboards and care about keyboard shortcuts on websites should generally know the "press <kbd>?</kbd>" convention which exists on virtually all other websites that support keyboard shortcuts -- and it is, to me, a power user feature that can confuse newbies.
As others have stated (apparently repeatedly. I can't find it myself as I'm still trying to figure out the search) there are two issues with this argument:
Just because other websites do it doesn't mean you should. If someone else perpetrates a WTF, don't go copying them.
Most (if not all) of us are what you would consider power users, and we were unaware of the ? shortcut on any other site until you mentioned it. Why? Because there is zero discoverability. You actually have to read the documentation to know it's there, and most people who are power users just jump right in and start using the software. They don't want to waste time with documentation. And do you know why? Because, as often as not it's wrong, usually because it's outdated. Not to mention, discourse doesn't have any official documentation.
@codinghorror said:Every bit of text on the screen is going to confuse someone, so I try to limit the words we put on the page when I can.
Sounds like you have a low opinion of your users. You either trust your users or you don't, and you don't.
@codinghorror said:Maybe a good compromise is to show it at trust level 1.
If you feel that is the only way to do it, fine. But let's look at it this way: it appears that you already don't trust your users, so to them, the trust levels are going to seem like magic (especially without documentation). So having a new option appear like magic is probably not the right way to go.
@abarker said:What does Mobile View do?
I am curious about this as well. Since you and @sam have apparently discussed the option of having this automatically interchange with Keyboard Shortcuts, how about telling us what Mobile View does, so we can give you useful feedback on whether that might be a good idea. Remember, this is a site full of IT people.
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