Posted by surprisetalk 1 day ago
I await his response.
Isn't it better that someone gave it a second chance, even if only by clicking a link?
A traditional link blog would highlight a short excerpt so that the reader might be encouraged to click through to the full piece.
>your behavior is weird and hostile actually
Look in the mirror.
>A traditional link blog would highlight a short excerpt so that the reader might be encouraged to click through to the full piece.
Mine is not a "traditional link blog" nor has it ever been since its inception on August 24, 2004. You're the first person I've known to use the phrase "traditional link blog." I like it! Maybe you should start one.
Typepad, which hosted my original blog since August 24, 2004, on September 1, 2025 gave me 30 days notice that it would shut down at midnight September 30, 2025, making my roughly 40,000 (not a typo) past posts inaccessible.
I spent a frantic month trying about 10 blog hosts seeking one I, a card-carrying Technodolt, could actually use without a lot of pain.
The only one that came close was Google's Blogger.
Alas, it's horrible: janky, confusing, and always changing something I thought I'd finalized.
Oh well...
You missed the point. Most things can be solved better. For example with undo or "fake undo" based on a delayed action or many other solutions, depending on the individual problem. Just asking "are you sure?" or forcing the user to jump through some hoops is the laziest and least user friendly way.
>> At 08:56 a ‘Trade Limit Warning’ pop-up alert appeared within PTE. This presented the trader with 711 warning messages, consisting of hard block and soft block messages, listed in a single alert where only the first 18 lines of alerts were immediately visible unless the person who received the alert scrolled down. The trader did not appreciate their inputting error and overrode all of the soft warnings in the pop-up.
> You get 711 alerts, you only see 18 of them, you are like “ehh 18 alerts is pretty much the normal number,” you override them all without reading.
This means a properly configured mollly-guard is invisible for routine actions but kicks in only when a genuine mistake is suspected because the operation would cause some sort of meaningful loss. That way, users aren't trained to ignore it.
That's clever. This is what I meant when I wrote, that software allows for better solutions.
I discussed this also here: