Oddbean new post about login | logout I still feel bad for developing Amethyst in this world. Gotta figure out a way to improve this.
The type of screen matters. The whole experience is so much less stimulating on a monochrome @daylightco reflecting the sun and without flicker or blue light while using the backlight. keep building 🫡
you and will both have this curse of being the main dudes making the things for the users of the gadget life happens, at least you get paid, maybe you can find ways to cut down the job by pushing it out to other things... i like what you are doing with this notifications suggestion, it is the way™️
also nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpr3mhxue69uhhg6r9vd5hgctyv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcprfmhxue69uhk2mrfw3jhxtnwdaehgunpw35jummjvuhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmny9uq36amnwvaz7tmgda68y6t8dp6xummh9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsz8rhwden5te0wfjkccte9emkj6mfveex2etyd9sju7re0ghszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3camnwvaz7tmrdpexjum5wp5kcmpwdehhxarjxyhxxmmd9uq3kamnwvaz7tmhdpjkzapwdpshqurew3shvetjdchxxme0qyf8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yv339e3k7mf0qqs06gywary09qmcp2249ztwfq3ue8wxhl2yyp3c39thzp55plvj0sgu0a6p4 there is a lot of good logic in the idea we only need one app per platform for the success of this protocol, just saying... watching vitor ruminate about notifications got me thinking about that... how we really don't need more than one, and that's not even a communist idea, it's not a physical product, it's a concept that is executed by a machine
just to be clear, a different client might be good for a specific, PAID service but for the generic twitter clone use case we really only need one, and really, this can eventually mean one codebase, all the things it's just a matter of building that base on each platform that you can push the One Thing onto
I don't think you should feel too bad. But there is room for improvement. Something that would be nice in Amethyst that Instagram used to do is to have a clear break in the feed that tells you when you're caught up. I think device notifications are inherently part of addictive design IMO. My amethyst notifs don't work so I'm actually happy about that. Maybe they should be off by default? (Opt in versus opt out). I also think content discovery is part of the addictiveness of social media. Remember Facebook pre news feed, did any of us give a shit about discovering new content?
Amethyst never pulls me in. I come to it when I feel like it. Huge improvement!
A simple suggestion: build a desktop client. PCs are a different species than smartphones, they are built to produce things, not just consume them. Therefore they have a more complex, more ductile and therefore more creative environment, which naturally develops skills.