NotificaLOGGED OUT!!!
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Wait wait wait-- has the Logout link always been at the bottom of the avatar menu?
Because my muscle memory is "bring up notifications menu, fly mouse to bottom of menu and hit last link to get to Notifications". But but but-- the bottom link is now Logout. I've almost hit it a dozen times.
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That's new as of when they got rid of the notifications bubble and moved it to being part of the avatar. Several days ago, IIRC. You'll note that "view older notifications" is right above that as the now second to last option instead of last.
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Part of bikeshedding involves jamming as much shit in to each menu as is unreasonably possible.
Also, copious amounts of whitespace.
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Part of bikeshedding involves jamming as much shit in to each menu as is unreasonably possible.
Also, copious amounts of whitespace.
I mean, it makes sense, right? If eventually you can cram every single UI element into the same space, it frees up glorious amounts of screen estate which can be devoted entirely to whitespace. And round avatars.
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Remember when the log out button was an intense orange that served as a "careful, this button is dangerous" sign?
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Odd, I don't have that button. My avatar menu just ends at "view older notifications..."
I wonder if that might be due to some bug in Discourse...
Filed Under: Dangerously high sarcasm level detected
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whitegrayblueblack
Which color will we lose next?
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I wonder if that might be due to some bug in Discourse...
Full-reload. Try hitting Enter in the address bar or use Ctrl+F5
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Let's not stop there. How about just one control, hooked to one event handler that strokes Jeff's ego?
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@Fox said:
I wonder if that might be due to some bug in Discourse...
Full-reload. Try hitting Enter in the address bar or use Ctrl+F5
I could swear I did that earlier when Discourse kept telling me it couldn't connect after I set up my new router even though I had an active internet connection again. I guess I only did a regular refresh, since the Logout button is there now.
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Filed Under: Dangerously high sarcasm level detected
Careful, that's the sort of sarcasm density that can form a black hole.
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Sounds fun. Would it help if I tried dividing by zero, too?
You get a cookie if you can explain why this is wrong
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You get a cookie if you can explain why this is wrong
I don't play those games anymore. @psychobunny promised me a sticker and then welshed on the deal.
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@Fox said:
You get a cookie if you can explain why this is wrong
I don't play those games anymore. @psychobunny promised me a sticker and then welshed on the deal.
As a descendant of Welsh royalty, I am extremely offended by that term, and withdraw my offer of a cookie.
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You get a cookie if you can explain why this is wrong
I said it in hopes that some other pendant would call me on it. I feel gyped.
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Calling pendants? O_o Smart necklaces? I don't think the technology is there yet to have necklaces of a comfortable size be capable of calling.
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The log-out got bikeshedded away and then an option to add it to the menu was provided but until now our admins where just too lazy to check the box.
Odd, I don't have that button.
Log out and back in again ... I mean hard refresh and it should be there.
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or an ass hole.
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@Fox said:
Odd, I don't have that button.
Log out and back in again ... I mean hard refresh and it should be there.
I did that, actually.
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Hmm...
[spoiler]
logb1√X ... is indeterminate for all b
...because 0√X is indeterminate.
[/spoiler]
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Hmm...
[spoiler]
logb1√X ... is indeterminate for all b
...because 0√X is indeterminate.
[/spoiler]Cookie for you! Though when talking about division by zero, "undefined" is the usual word.
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...when talking about division by zero, "undefined" is the usual word.
Sorry, mixed in the computer lingo. (Vader voice: Pray I don't change it to "NaN".)
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@Fox said:
...when talking about division by zero, "undefined" is the usual word.
Sorry, mixed in the computer lingo. (Vader voice: Pray I don't change it to "NaN".)
Well, it'd be better than crashing your computer, at least. Or frying it with the Death Star.
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When I made this post https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-minor-rants-thread/3508/762?u=loose one discoday ago, it was not there then. Nor was it there (obviously) prior to that, or for half a discoday or so after that.
But it is there now.....
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an option to add it to the menu was provided
Discourse's UI paradigm is "we know our design actually sucks, so here are 100 checkboxes you need to uncheck to unfuck the design just a little bit".
Seriously, if you need to make your design decision optional, then you should reconsider the decision in the first place. Having your design optional shows a lack of confidence in it.
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@Luhmann said:
an option to add it to the menu was provided
Discourse's UI paradigm is "we know our design actually sucks, so here are 100 checkboxes you need to uncheck to unfuck the design just a little bit".
Seriously, if you need to make your design decision optional, then you should reconsider the decision in the first place. Having your design optional shows a lack of confidence in it.
I actually like having as many things be optional as possible; you can't please everyone, so the simplest thing to do is just let everyone choose what they want and don't want.
A logout button, though? That seems kind of overkill to have as optional. What they should've done is have a separate Notifications icon, and put things like, you know, Profile, Log Out, Preferences, etc., in the avatar menu all by themselves in very obvious places instead of even tinier icons than the avatar menu itself. Oh, wait.
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A logout button, though? That seems kind of overkill to have as optional.
Precisely. It's not really an option -- either you're convinced the logout button should be there, or you're convinced it shouldn't. Configuration should really be left for things that actually may vary depending on the particular environment.
If anything, make it a per-user option, not a per-instance one, since a preference for having or not having the logout button is a property of an user, not a forum. But I still think every such option just spells "we're not sure about our design".
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This post is deleted!
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How about just one control, hooked to one event handler that strokes Jeff's ego?
What we need here is a multi-speed, piston-driven power wang.
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Does it come in purple though?
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Do you want another whoosh?
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Actually, I was aiming for a grammar Nazi this time.
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Ok, confirmed for whoosh.
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Is there some deeper meaning here that I'm missing besides him misspelling "pedant"?
If not, I think a couple of other whooshes are in order
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Pendantry is one of our memes around here. Long story.
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Pendantry? Specifically pendantry, rather than pedantry?
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Yes, specifically pendantry rather than pedantry. Imagine, if you will, the notion of calling people out for spelling, and specifically citing the notion of pedantry, while (intentionally) misspelling the word you are citing.
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I managed to imagine that for a few moments, but then I was suddenly overcome by the urge to slap myself repeatedly until I stopped imagining doing that.
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Yes, specifically pendantry rather than pedantry. Imagine, if you will, the notion of calling people out for
spellingspellar, and specifically citing the notion of pedantry, while (intentionally) misspelling the word you are citing.FTFY.
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If I had meant to spellar, I would have said accalia.
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But I still think every such option just spells "we're not sure about our design".
No, they were pretty sure about their design. They removed it and that was final.
Once that became public, people (the ones using the forum) were against that "design". There was a topic about bringing that button back because it was stupid to remove it in the first place.
Then there was a plugin to bring it back and ONLY THEN did Sam reimpliment the button AS AN OPTION.So in this one instance not only were the devs sure about their design, they also listened to user feedback on a usability issue.
Filed Under: Who would have thought
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So in this one instance not only were the devs sure about their design, they also listened to user feedback on a usability issue.
Because a paying customer made a similar point.
We're developers, our ideas of user experience don't matter.
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According to
https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/everything-done-in-the-cloud/51475/14?u=kuro
I am 100% correct, though!
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Well yeah, I didn't say they listened to us. But they listened to SOMEBODY, which is pretty much a step up from what experience tells me otherwise
Filed Under: Babysteps!
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This was the part I didn't believe you about.
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I don't believe that you don't believe that part!
Filed Under: Stalemate!
Also Filed Under: Well, the other users pretty much pushed as hard as we had to when we tried to get something through
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Yeah, but the bottom line is, they know it sucks and people hate it, but they go with this anyway, except not really.
I don't know. I've criticized Microsoft for trying to pander to the users and being shy about pushing their ideas, but the difference is Microsoft's ideas were kinda decent compared to Discourse... So maybe it is better than nothing to have that config.
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I can see where you are coming from. Though I'd prefer a company that listens to user complaints and tries to push their (weird) ideas by making them default until people got used to them more than not having a logout button easily available just because Jeff doesn't ever log out.
Or maybe I can say it like this: If all you have in your team is engineers/programmers and no real "UI-designer" then I am all for backpeddaling whenever you remove Elements (especially functional ones).
Filed Under: Maybe I am just not seeing the vision and logging out is not a thing in 10 years anymore... could be!