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Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by colonel_panic »

javery wrote: post #61
jawns wrote: post #35

Here's how I would improve this: The lightbox that opens up asks, "Looking for the GitHub logo?" But it doesn't let you answer no. It just presumes that your answer is yes, and supplies you with what it thinks you actually want (or, more cynically, what it wants you to want). I would suggest adding a "No thanks -- just let me right-click" link at the bottom. That link would close the lightbox and prevent it from reop…

You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.

Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#72

Post by mmahemoff »

javery wrote: post #61
jawns wrote: post #35

Here's how I would improve this: The lightbox that opens up asks, "Looking for the GitHub logo?" But it doesn't let you answer no. It just presumes that your answer is yes, and supplies you with what it thinks you actually want (or, more cynically, what it wants you to want). I would suggest adding a "No thanks -- just let me right-click" link at the bottom. That link would close the lightbox and prevent it from reop…

You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.

It's probably overkill to save the preference. A good-and-still-simple solution would be to include a (non-linked) replica image of the original button along with an explanatory link to github.com.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#73

Post by stevenw36 »

javery wrote: post #61
jawns wrote: post #35

Here's how I would improve this: The lightbox that opens up asks, "Looking for the GitHub logo?" But it doesn't let you answer no. It just presumes that your answer is yes, and supplies you with what it thinks you actually want (or, more cynically, what it wants you to want). I would suggest adding a "No thanks -- just let me right-click" link at the bottom. That link would close the lightbox and prevent it from reop…

You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.

You could say the same thing about what Github is doing with the interception of the right-click event. The "about us" page would be a better place to put links to logo. Leave the user's right-click alone.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#74

Post by callmeed »

I think this is awesome.

I'm in an industry where our customers (pro photographers) are at paranoia level: tin-foil-hat with regards to people stealing their images. Regardless of how much I try to educate people, many will always want right-click disabled.

I think this is a great compromise. If you could offer them a low-res or watermarked version, that would be something people would pay for.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#75

Post by cocoflunchy »

colonel_panic wrote: post #71
javery wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.

Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

Well I middle-click...

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#76

Post by trustfundbaby »

colonel_panic wrote: post #71
javery wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.

Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

yes

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#77

Post by epaik »

wittgenstein wrote: post #70
hk__2 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I want to open Github's homepage in a new tab, I can't use only my mouse (right click -> 'open in a new tab'), I must use Ctrl+click. Why Github force me to do that ? [Edit: middle-click doesn't work for me]

Then this is an argument for NOT overloading the right-click behavior, not for adding a "No thanks" preference. Then all users who want to right-click have to go through ONE EXTRA STEP just to be able to do that?

I think the idea is that you would only have to do that extra step once, have that preference saved, and after that all right click / middle clickers would have the functionality they wanted. Doesn't seem too inconvenient to me, honestly.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#78

Post by webjunkie »

pclark wrote: post #66
javery wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.

they really should save this kind of preference to their database so that it follows the user across other sessions and machines too. and then add a setting in their account preferences to opt back in to the right hand click lightbox.

Maybe it's also useful to sync this settings to the Mac App and possibly other apps... an email every time it gets changed would also be useful, in case someone with your login decides to change it. And finally, in teams one should be able to control which member can change this setting for himself, and which not, and the team lead can also set a default what should happen on the right click.. Yeah, that's it.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

#80

Post by pgrote »

webjunkie wrote: post #78
pclark wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they really should save this kind of preference to their database so that it follows the user across other sessions and machines too. and then add a setting in their account preferences to opt back in to the right hand click lightbox.

Maybe it's also useful to sync this settings to the Mac App and possibly other apps... an email every time it gets changed would also be useful, in case someone with your login decides to change it. And finally, in teams one should be able to control which member can change this setting for himself, and which not, and the team lead can also set a default what should happen on the right click.. Yeah, that's it.

We're also going to need a way for someone to report on the right click actions. Log the action, build an alert system to distribute and then auto generate an email letting someone know the alert is sent. The reporting should have control levels so the team lead can designate whether someone can see this report, share this report or print this report.
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