Figma Is a File Editor

Re:Figma Is a File Editor by BSEdlMMldESB on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:24PM (#36703520)

so if your user needs to know anything more than what it's in front of them; you have made bad software??? this can't be right; but I can sense my own ideological worries seeping in.

this is about a distinction between entries in a database (files) and the database itself (the filesystem is a DB).

but what's wrong with expecting people to know a little? would you argue that if the user sees the whole URL in the browser that the abstractions are leaking?

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Re:Figma Is a File Editor by fooker on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:30PM (#36703564)

>but what's wrong with expecting people to know a little?

The issue here is that you're training users to rely on internal details.

Once users have to rely on internal details, you are stuck with maintaining these forever or face a constant stream of backlash.

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Re:Figma Is a File Editor by jayd16 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:36PM (#36703600)

This way off topic but it's an interesting question. I guess I do think the url bar is leaky. Hyperlinks are the desired abstraction, no?

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