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Re:Toasts Are Bad UX by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:36PM (#41306549)
Undo via ephemeral toast seems like a bad idea also. I guess if the toast hanged around until the next toast it might make sense?
Re:Toasts Are Bad UX by JamesSwift on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @09:09AM (#41309921)
Theres an implicit assumption that the actions being offered an “undo” are semi-important/permanent.

In other words, if you delete an email and it goes to the trash folder: good use of toast + undo

If you empty the trash, and there is nowhere the user can go to unempty it: bad use of toast + undo

Its also useful as a sleight of hand eg when cancelling an action you havent yet taken (which actually is generally what a toast + undo actually is). The best example of this being toast + undo for an email send

Re:Toasts Are Bad UX by Grustaf on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @12:11PM (#41311607)
Putting an email in trash seems like exactly the kind of action that does _not_ need a toast, since it's easy and obvious to undo.