Re:Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded p...
by TeMPOraL on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:20PM
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The problem with failures and optimistic UI isn't that failures happen often - it's that they're not uniformly distributed. I do not have a 1% or 0.0001% chance of experiencing failure any given message. I have 0.0001% chance of experiencing failure, unless I'm currently in a tunnel, or my ISP breaks something again, or [insert dozen other infrequent client-side failure modes], at which point my failure rate briefly hits 100%, and I'd very much appreciate if the UI didn't lie to me about it.
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Re:Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded p...
by aidos on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:35PM
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That’s what I was saying above, you can detect those scenarios a lot of the time and handle them reasonably. Oftentimes they’re temporary and will resolve without losing any data (in a well designed system). Like I say, you can even head those off before the user knows about them.
There are trade offs to consider in UX. You’re trying to make things as seamless as possible for the end user without distracting them with things they don’t care about.