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comment by ecib
ecib  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stephan Gordon: In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
The quote does look like a link. Not optimal, -it confuses people.

Hubski should just use the '>' symbol like Reddit does. It just works. Why re-invent the wheel?





thenewgreen  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·  
While I agree that "reinventing the wheel" is usually not optimal, I was never much of a redditor and using > to acknowledge a quote doesn't seem at all intuitive to me. I suggest just changing the color. I know that we have a number of active hubskiers that have never been redditors. No need to double down on bad ideas. I think it likely works for you because you're very familiar with it. Do you think it would still be the optimal choice had you never experienced it before? Genuinely curious.
ecib  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It's just the same as using the '\' character on both ends for me.

Both are arbitrary, but I guess I was just coming from the standpoint of just using what is generally used on other large platforms. Makes it a tad less arbitrary (unless the '\' character was pulled from another platform already).

At any rate, I think the important thing is not the character mechanism that Hubski uses to initiate a quote, but rather the output of the quote. Currently, it looks like a hyperlink. On say, Reddit, the text is not the color of a hyperlink, and a sidebar is inserted along the body of the quote, clearly identify it as such. Simple and it works.

So I guess I really think that weather we use a '>' or a '|' or something else entirely, it doesn't matter. Users will learn the mechanics (though I'm still biased towards using a format in use by another high adoption site). But I think the output is what needs the work.

I mean, can we all agree that making a block of text look exactly like a web-standard hyperlink is not optimal? :)

mk  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·  
    Users will learn the mechanics (though I'm still biased towards using a format in use by another high adoption site). But I think the output is what needs the work.

How is this? Still the bar for input, but a different output. (You might need to refresh.)

ecib  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Me likey :)

Damn you're fast.

mk  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·  
TWSS
thenewgreen  ·  4409 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I mean, can we all agree that making a block of text look exactly like a web-standard hyperlink is not optimal? -I'm with ya.