News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Toasts Are Bad UX. Parent comment

Re:Toasts Are Bad UX by lolinder on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:56PM (#41304510)
Isn't a toast just the tail of a message log that's visible for a few seconds after a new message is added? I don't always want the entire log to be occupying space on my screen, but I do want to see when new items get added.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Toasts Are Bad UX by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @07:23AM (#41309160)
The problem is that everyone implements toasts, and no one implements the message log, even though it's the latter that's more important to have.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Toasts Are Bad UX by digging on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @12:42PM (#41311956)
Exactly - a toast is, at best, a nice add-on to a message log. Although I maintain a well implemented message log already serves every single purpose toasts do, better.
[ Parent | on HN ]