Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype

Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by Matt3o12_ on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:24PM (#16125678)

I like it and use it all the time and many people I know also use it a lot. It is not as good for text that is most relevant on the bottom (e.g. text messages) but really useful for webpages, etc.. Some apps implement some logic to scroll back up when you tap it again (Apollo comes to mind).

The only disadvantage is that many users do not know about this feature (because there is no indication that the status bar tab is supposed to do something like that) which is the reason many use think an app is buggy after they have tabbed on it accidentally.

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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by eganist on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:49PM (#16125947)

> The only disadvantage is that many users do not know about this feature (because there is no indication that the status bar tab is supposed to do something like that) which is the reason many use think an app is buggy after they have tabbed on it accidentally.

Precisely why this behavior should be considered unfriendly. It's not intuitive and is prone to accidents by the vast majority of the target market.

Even just making it a double-tap would make it drastically better, and double-taps are closer to convention as well. Double-click the left or right arrows in an overloaded tab bar in Firefox on desktop, for instance, for it to scroll a full row over.

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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by robotsonic on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:13PM (#16126188)

Agree with this. It's a great feature other than in messaging apps. In those, I wish there was an equally useful feature to get back to the bottom.

I've noticed that most people find the feature accidentally, but then once they realize it's an option, use it extensively.

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Re:Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryp... by lvillani on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:32PM (#16126416)

> I wish there was an equally useful feature to get back to the bottom.

WhatsApp shows a small button in the lower-right corner once you scroll up a few messages for this purpose. iMessage scrolls back to the bottom as soon as you focus the input field. I don't know about the others.

But yeah, it highly depends on how the developers decide to implement it, which is suboptimal :(

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