Thinking through Tim Chambers' writeup on how to deal with the sometimes very spotty UX of Open Social Web platforms.

This article is a response to Tim Chambers’ recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It’s a pretty great read, and I’m writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.

This is a musing on 7 problems that have been pointed out, with some ideas on what progress has been made to fix them.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    20 hours ago

    I really like the pre-identity thing, especially if you’re going to other types of activity pub applications or switching instances.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      Thank you! I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I think it could be used to solve a bunch of different problems, like importing stuff from other networks, and having everything ready to go before you join an instance.

      There’s some UX questions that have to be figured out, the last thing I want is some super-cluttered design that asks for a million different options. Also, platforms would need to provide some necessary APIs (for registration and data import) to make it fully useable.