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comment by Complexity
Complexity  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ignore This Test

A visual metaphor that lies





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Under our noses all the time

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The Hubwheel, dammit! Look at it!

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The centre, like a seed

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A discussion topic ringed by

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The replies we all could read

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Click upon one and it zooms to show

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Its own replies in turn

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And deeper, as discussions flow

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And ebb and seep and and boil and churn

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One could tune the render depth

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Make structure focused, or a sprawler

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But really what I'm talking of is

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A discursive fractal explorer

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Like I say it's hard to play

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UI in text's not crisp

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But I think I'm saying that it's more

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Like this:

Rather than this:

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Or even more like this, Mike made:

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The fractals there are clear

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Though navigation might be harder

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When you're nursing your fourth beer

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I guess essentially I think

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We're trapped in paradigms

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Inherited from bygone eras

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From pre modern UI times

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But now it seems I'm out of room

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And I'm typing, copy-pasting

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Firefox at its smallest zoom

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And both our time I may be wasting

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It's a foolish way to call

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For help in playing with UI's

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But if anyone has interest

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I would love to hear replies.

user-inactivated  ·  3483 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On Firefox mobile the reply links and such no longer work this far down. It's a shame considering how long it took to scroll.

I can get it through your profile though.

caelum19  ·  3482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks to Complexity/insomnia I read that in rhyme.

On firefox for PC, the reply box doesn't show when I hit "reply" But I can still click on "Link".

Dendrophobe  ·  3483 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Needs some Zalgo text.