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A bug which affected only left handed users

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Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by john_strinlai »

throw1234567891 wrote: post #5
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is simple : don’t use LinkedIn :) I only use it when looking for a job and I never look at the “feed” (what’s that for anyway?)

I get more useful and up-to-date info from LinkedIn than from here.

up-to-date info on what sorts of topics?

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by recursive »

gpvos wrote: post #12

I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.

I'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by madaxe_again »

recursive wrote: post #14
gpvos wrote: post #12

I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.

I'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.

I’m a guy who’ll leave his laptop on the floor and will bend double from a chair to use it, on the floor, because I have forgotten I can pick it up. I am ergonomically insensitive.

Anyway, I use my phone in my left hand, my right hand, or both, pretty much equally.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by relaxedmedal »

nja wrote: post #9
sixhobbits wrote: post #3

something similar actually really annoys me on linkedin mobile, I'm left handed and often accidentally like posts if I scroll my feed as the like button is very close to where I naturally touch the screen to scroll.

sometimes I wonder if things like this are actually dark patterns to _encourage_ accidentally clicking 'like' etc. similar to how in Threads, the '...' icon (under which 'save' is hidden) is so small that half the time clicking on it just clicks the entire thread (opening it to view replies) -- sometimes I suspect they make the target extra small on purpose or how on FB, some of the options in the menu are now under…

I think they do encourage it - probably due to marketing. If you are getting paid per click its in your best interest to get someone to click irrespective of content. Snapchat do it with the scroll up feature, instead of it going to the next clip as most doom scrollers do, it goes straight to a profile. Vice Versa on other popular platforms. That little 'glitch' for a second, and now a new popup came at just the time you were about to press right where your digit is and you are loading onto a sponsored site. Of course the sponsor then boasts look how many clicks you have got.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by Terr_ »

PTOB wrote: post #13
Terr_ wrote: post #6

> A bug which won't be triggered by righteous people but infuriating to those who will surely be left behind after The Rapture™. Or perhaps the righteous versus the sinister .

I approve of Latin jokes. Well done.

Oh no sir, I am merely a humble boorish villain.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

recursive wrote: post #14
gpvos wrote: post #12

I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.

I'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.

Get a ring for the back of your phone. Makes one handed use much easier.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by robin_reala »

recursive wrote: post #14
gpvos wrote: post #12

I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.

I'm a man with typically sized hands. I can barely do anything one-handed on a phone. Phones are so big they basically require two-handed operation for me. Like you, I typically hold it in my left hand, so I can use my right hand to tap stuff.

There’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis, and I plan to keep it going until Apple caves and makes a sensibly sized phone again.

Re: A bug which affected only left handed users

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

nja wrote: post #9
sixhobbits wrote: post #3

something similar actually really annoys me on linkedin mobile, I'm left handed and often accidentally like posts if I scroll my feed as the like button is very close to where I naturally touch the screen to scroll.

sometimes I wonder if things like this are actually dark patterns to _encourage_ accidentally clicking 'like' etc. similar to how in Threads, the '...' icon (under which 'save' is hidden) is so small that half the time clicking on it just clicks the entire thread (opening it to view replies) -- sometimes I suspect they make the target extra small on purpose or how on FB, some of the options in the menu are now under…

NYT games app loads in an interstitial screen with a play button, as you go to click it they shift it up and put a subscribe button there so that when you click you accidentally click subscribe. Evil genius.

It could be accidental, but without that there's no reason to have the interstitial screen at all.

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