noughtnaut

You want affordances? Get out of here you filthy leper!

• every UI designer this century, apparently 🤦

I mean, give people a damn clue at least? No? Hm.

I’m not sure if I posted this, but I figured out they have seeing 50k users, and 1:10 gender ratio - although that doesn’t say how many are real people.

My father, who worked for a huge computer manufacturer, was once approached by two young dudes asking for a server for their new startup. He listened to their proposition but couldn’t see how they were going to stay in business, so he turned them down and they went elsewhere for their hardware.

This was the two founders of Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, some 20 years ago.

The trouble is that with this sort of thing you really do need some form of moderation or quality control (of the users, not (only) the platform) because it will be inundated by fake profiles and nasty content.

As much as I’m cheering for Alovoa I don’t see how this is solveable. 🥲

As well as the yeet keyword, I’m really friggin’ diggin’ this. [modernisation required]

There’s another origin story that revolves around someone having a pet leopard, got mauled by it, and still refused to see that a leopard is probably a terrible animal for a pet.