What we're often doing now to "deal with something later" is leave it in our notification queue without clearing it -- which is effectively what Tumblr does by just telling us "here are new posts from people you follow, ordered newest backward." Except Tumblr does it in a way that's faster for users to deal with and much lighter-weight on the back end.
And are "save this" and "share this" really best served by combining them into one action? They're very different concepts, aren't they?
Again, my point isn't "FA sucks" -- it has its issues, but there are certain ways in which its user experience is actually better than its newer competitors. (The chief mechanism for discovery on all those sites is seeing what artists you follow -- or who follow you -- are favoriting and who they're following, and when I last checked, FA had fewer "hops" to do that than either SoFurry or Weasyl did.) My point is that we're not seeing anyone seriously experiment with these attributes. Believing that we have already found the Truest And Most Bestest Way That Can Never Be Improved seems dubious.
What we're often doing now to "deal with something later" is leave it in our notification queue without clearing it -- which is effectively what Tumblr does by just telling us "here are new posts from people you follow, ordered newest backward." Except Tumblr does it in a way that's faster for users to deal with and much lighter-weight on the back end.
And are "save this" and "share this" really best served by combining them into one action? They're very different concepts, aren't they?
Again, my point isn't "FA sucks" -- it has its issues, but there are certain ways in which its user experience is actually better than its newer competitors. (The chief mechanism for discovery on all those sites is seeing what artists you follow -- or who follow you -- are favoriting and who they're following, and when I last checked, FA had fewer "hops" to do that than either SoFurry or Weasyl did.) My point is that we're not seeing anyone seriously experiment with these attributes. Believing that we have already found the Truest And Most Bestest Way That Can Never Be Improved seems dubious.
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