Post B8HD5Tc8C4XAjBhjVI by sendai@eigenmagic.net
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 (DIR) Post #B8FZ3aVpNt90DdLBTc by andrewg@mastodon.ie
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       Deeply irritated this morning by #firefox on #ios. I accidentally closed a tab by swiping it very slightly. I can’t reopen the closed tab, and I can’t even see what it was. Three UX failures in one thumb twitch.Now I have an unscratchable itch in the back of my mind that I may have deleted something important and I HATE IT.Swipe gestures are a UX disaster. An analogue minefield of digital traps, hair thin distinctions and accessibility barriers.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8FZ3amUNwTJ3J8URk by andrewg@mastodon.ie
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       Swipe gestures are deeply user hostile. Got a hand tremor? Fuck you. Over 70? Fuck you. Forgot which swipe direction is which? Fuck you. Got a rugged case that prevents you swiping up from the very edge of the screen? Haha, fuck you. #firefox #ios
       
 (DIR) Post #B8FZ3bJSPMqKhYYopk by andrewg@mastodon.ie
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       Swiping has one valid use only - scrolling. Anything else is a dangerous and inaccessible complication of something that should be intuitive. In particular, swiping should NEVER be used to trigger a permanent state change. #firefox #ios
       
 (DIR) Post #B8FZCTQZ5xKSqs7GGu by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @andrewg got a skin that capacitive glass hates? fuck me too.(it got somewhat better, but I always needed about 15-20 attempts to unlock the work phone for the previous lock as fucking Android insisted on swiping up, it was so bad I could do it with only a single-digit amounts over teamviewer from a different phone better… thankfully iOS and GrapheneOS just have me press things)
       
 (DIR) Post #B8FZIB2iMUajZPgDFA by hannorein@mastodon.social
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       @andrewg 💯 On iOS I can never remember from which corner I need to swipe to get to a notification, or the control center, or switch apps, etc. Because None of those functions have any visual clues.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8GRKXjUMpaI2tGRxQ by sendai@eigenmagic.net
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       @mirabilos @andrewg I constantly hit the “accidentally swiped close issue” in Graphene, mostly because swiping from both the left and right goes “back” and if there’s nothing to go back to, the tab is closed instead.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8GRKYBUghzBRkMobo by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @sendai @andrewg ah I use the left button in GrapheneOS
       
 (DIR) Post #B8HD5Tc8C4XAjBhjVI by sendai@eigenmagic.net
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       @mirabilos @andrewg Guess I'll have to find if there's some way to combine the two. Button navigation has swiping from the right to go forward in browsers, but not swiping from the bottom to switch apps/go to the launcher.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8HD73Xa6Z7mRSKU1A by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @sendai @andrewg the square button does that