Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo (2007)

Re:Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo (2007) by errnesto on Sunday May 26, 2024 @07:50AM (#40481441)

My first thought was “yeah but there are also things you can not undo like sending e-mail” but then I remembered there is a really nice undo send button now (that works by delaying the send a bit).

Sure there are things you can not undo, sometimes you do want to permanently delete something, but maybe with a bit of thinking a undo is feasible more often then one might think :-)

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Re:Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo (2007) by pjerem on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:16AM (#40481590)

> (that works by delaying the send a bit).

A delay which can be annoying in its own way. It’s rarely an issue to be fair but it means you may not be informed of errors if you leave the mail client too soon. Also there are (admittedly very rare) cases where you want the mail to be sent immediately but it is sent at an unpredictable time : those undo features rarely display a countdown.

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Re:Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo (2007) by Retric on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:29AM (#40481650)

True, on the other hand such delays help reinforce that email asynchronous rather than real time like chat programs.

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Re:Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo (2007) by IshKebab on Sunday May 26, 2024 @09:08AM (#40481877)

Sending email is inherently asynchronous so the errors aren't an issue really.

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