People can deal with a bad UI if they like the hardware/features of the software. See: Discord. But then this rant called out... well...
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The Mouse. The mouse was a backwards step in controlling computers, apparently. N.o. go away stop don't even just go no no no no no
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Mice let you interact with any part of the display without needing to know anything special besides drag, and click. It's effective. Easy.
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Replying to @Carin_McLeoud
i don't preciiiisely agree with him but i have a lot of hatred for mice that mostly comes out of degenerate cases that develop around them
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Replying to @chaosprime
Curiosity. WHaddya mean? I mean I hate razr mice too but that doesn't hurt my logitech--though I imagine you mean summat different.
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Replying to @Carin_McLeoud
they're a good interface for spatial tasks and the kind of exploratory use you're talking about, they're incredibly bad for workflows you've gotten good at
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Replying to @chaosprime @Carin_McLeoud
the degenerate cases are things where a keyboard workflow is possible but so is a mouse workflow, and because the designer would *never consider* using a keyboard workflow (and probably rises to the level of being self-righteous about it) the keyboard workflow has been broken
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Replying to @chaosprime @Carin_McLeoud
load up web site, i've already typed my username into that box and am typing my password when the onload event fires and forces my input focus back into the username box, because if i had been relying on a mouse i would still be trying to navigate to the username box
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Replying to @chaosprime @Carin_McLeoud
select dropdown has been replaced with a fancy slick-looking version, the web default being just *too* terribly plain, which doesn't bother implementing the keyboard entry behavior of normal HTML select elements because the designer literally did not know it exists
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Replying to @chaosprime @Carin_McLeoud
basically, the mouse sells you a slow, messy interface by presenting it to you as *friendly* and *natural*, and then people who want to use fast, precise interfaces wind up forced to use them because why would anybody want to use anything but the *friendly* and *natural* way?
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touchscreens are all that times 1000
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Replying to @chaosprime
On the other hand, not having a mouse often means needing to know the exact archaic way to interface with a computer, necessitating quick-
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Replying to @Carin_McLeoud @chaosprime
reference sheets. I think honestly a lot of these problems also come from software no longer competing on UI or features, just on saying>
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