Show HN: I wrote an Enigma machine emulator for the Web

Re:Show HN: I wrote an Enigma machine emulator for the Web by edent on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:05AM (#20983589)

This is very clever. But I think you would benefit from testing it with real users. I spend a minute clicking around and nothing seemed to work - then I noticed the low contrast text telling me to configure things.

So I configured them and it still didn't work. Turns out the "lock" setting was now hidden and I had to scroll down.

Once I got that done, it worked very well.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an Enigma machine emulator for the Web by lubeskih on Monday September 16, 2019 @09:10AM (#20983626)

Thank you for the feedback! I should probably work on that... I agree that it's confusing.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an Enigma machine emulator for the Web by nacs on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:22AM (#20984291)

Agreed on this, played around dragging things around for a couple minutes and still couldn't get it to do anything.

Maybe pre-configure some default settings so it works immediately upon load. Or perhaps a short video showing its use.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an Enigma machine emulator for the Web by jedimastert on Monday September 16, 2019 @01:28PM (#20986462)

I would recommend setting defaults (probably first three rotors set at the beginning) and possibly not have the locking mechanism in place?

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