Timeline for Why is this website so user-unfriendly?
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 13:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:31 | comment | added | Dice | which isn't that easy if it was in the middle or at the end of a line. So to avoid that kind of trouble, that's probably why I changed to the formatting I am using. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | Dice | I see! You have a point with the eye tracking. I guess for me it feels uncomfortable to have a sentence split in an awkward place by a forced line break, like at the beginning of a sentence. That's probably the reason why I prefer manual line breaks. So a sentence can easily be read to the end (or the middle at least) in a single line instead of e.g. beginning at the end of a line and you have to go looking for the continuation in the next line. It often happens to me that I continue reading in the wrong line and get gibberish, then I have to find the beginning of the sentence again, | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:20 | comment | added | psubsee2003 | @Dice meta sites are different. They are discussion sites force fit into a Q&A engine. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:19 | comment | added | Dice | Hm... that's true, but the only alternative to posting a comment is posting an answer, so in a discussion like this or when you are discussing with somebody else about a question or answer, you have to use comments for it, right? In the end, it looks to me more like a forum than a wiki, because everything starts with a question. I guess it could be more like a FAQ? It's unusual, but I like unusual things, so I'm not complaining about that. Just saying that comments are more like posts than short interjections in some places (like here). | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:13 | comment | added | psubsee2003 | @Dice to each their own. But I find line breaks without paragraph breaks very hard to read. You eye tracks better when it doesn't have to keep jumping around to find the start of the next sentence. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:11 | comment | added | Dice | Ah and to answer your question, I think they are both good... you probably wanted to hear: "Hey, this looks a lot better!", but it's not the feeling I have. Is it really not just personal preference? confused | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:06 | comment | added | psubsee2003 | @Dice that's the point - comments are not posts. They are comments to posts. We want to encourage people to not use comments for something other than what they are designed for. Stack Overflow was originally conceived as more like a wiki than a forum. It was expected that posts are formatted well and have as little noise as possible. Unrestricted commenting is very noisy and confusing | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 11:58 | comment | added | Dice | Why would you restrict what people can do in a post? Even something like line breaks, it seems completely crazy to me why you would want to control peoples' posts like that. Oo I don't even know what to say to that. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 11:42 | history | answered | psubsee2003 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |