The teacher used to show up with a stack of printouts they made before class and hand them around. Thank god we've finally eliminated that inefficiency.

an "open" button that only shows up in portrait sounds like some sadistic Myst puzzle

We’ve got to start using the word “harassment” to describe common user interface tropes such as excessively complex login systems (funny the people who are experts at logging into your account without your permissions absolutely thrive in this environment), cookie popups, cloudflare popups, etc.

I dunno how much of this comes out of being based in the Bay Area where it is normalized that you’ll stay in your conference hotel and never leave the arcology because otherwise you’ll get harassed. I wonder if people realize that you could go to like Ohio or something and it doesn’t have to be that way.

The amount of failed digitization in primary/secondary education is astounding. It's a tax on parenthood in favor of the school system. Deficits are paid for out of the children's education. Each new system that comes along is just https://xkcd.com/927/.

Handouts just need to be printed and books reused. None of the other stuff is useful or helpful. And don't get me started on the "gamification" of every learning task.

Seeing reddit pushed hard on the front page after its become a login online site I wonder if this is yet another push to try and make the site relevant again after a decade of mismanagement, stackoverflow 2.0 if you'd like.

Why is any login required at all? Is this sensitive information that needs authentication?

When I taught undergrads, most people taught from personal ipads. I ditched mine and switched to Android because they were so bad about this: tap,tap,tap,tap, seemingly endless tapping for simple file operations. And if you're teaching in smallish seminars, you're constantly referencing, sending, receiving, grading a million documents. An inefficient pdf opening sequence is going to be repeated 60 times for each assignment.

Another “fun” procedure:

1. Open canvas on laptop

2. Open canvas quiz

3. Write answers on paper

4. Scan paper with office lens

5. Export document from office lens

6. Upload document to google drive

7. Open google drive on laptop

8. Download document from google drive

9. Upload document to canvas

10. Realize you forgot to write your student id on page 2, write and go back to step 4

steps 1-11 could apply to anything. Can we compare number of actual vendor specific steps if that's how its going to be framed? How many clicks does it take on a real computer?