Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoBiodiversity is great. Abandoning confused users isn’t. Those options can still exist without baffling the user.
“Marketing programming” understands the human condition and tries to facilitate people. That part - for all its other failings - is more empathetic than telling people who struggle that we refuse to “dumb down” the process for them.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
It’s not empathetic. It just tries to understand human psychology well enough to manipulate consumer choices for more profits. If you want something on that philosophy, that’s what reddit is already for.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not trying to say that marketing is empathetic. I’m saying that meeting people where they are at is.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Where they are is having spent most of their life in a walled garden corporate internet. What you need to understand is that all new things have a learning curve, and the process of learning needs to be accepted - rather than trying to pressure free systems into being the very thing everyone is wanting to get away from.
Freedom means having choice. Sometimes a lot of it. Sometimes that’s scary. But it’s worth embracing.
FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If any of that were true there wouldn’t be posts and comments here and elsewhere from professional programmers who gave up on the registration process because of bad UX. I was one of them. People don’t give up on registering here because it’s “scary”.
If you’re one of the many people here happy for this to remain a niche for tech people then that’s different.