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Sohcahtoa82 on Feb 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should toggle button show its current state or the...

> computer people are slow to pick up this sort of stuff from other fields

Because computer people aren't optimizing for functionality, intuitiveness, or really any sort of UX.

They're optimizing for some idea of "beauty" and whatever is trendy.

mattmaroon on Feb 12, 2024 [–]

And you don’t die if your mute switch is in the wrong position at the wrong time.

wruza on Feb 13, 2024 | [–]

Users may disagree.

mattmaroon on Feb 13, 2024 | | [–]

Users who survived being unmuted.

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