By now I've become so accustomed to just copy the bold text from the line above it and paste, that it doesn't break me out anymore. I know I should concentrate and type it out, but in my head it has just become visual noise and a boring exercise.
Aha .. perhaps the interface can be changed to prevent copy-paste into that field.
Better would be to not show the repo name directly above the dialog at all so the user actually has to think a bit about what they need to enter. Just re-typing a text shown to you can be done on autopilot as well.
Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars
by ignoramous on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:21AM
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All the talk about auto-pilot mode reminds me of this excellent talk on activation energy, waking up yourself from slumber, or flip-flopping between auto-pilot and emergency modes: Mel Robbins, How to stop screwing yourself over, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Lp7E973zozc
OTOH, I haven't been in such a mode, so I really got no right to comment on this. Best wishes to the team -- that those who saw his post will restar/rewatch the repo -- and (fwiw) thanks for writing it up and making me even more paranoid (in a positive sense) about doing such destructive operations.