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With a thumbs-up I know they've read it, and that's worth quiet a bit in this asynchronous communication world of ours.
We used to (and I believe still) have Read Receipts for this.
Oh, this is good to know! I haven't encountered this issue personally yet, but maybe once I've updated my mailserver, I won't encounter it in the future. Now to figure out how to stop the same thing happening in SMS.
You'll be glad to hear that SMS already doesn't have reactions
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This is cute, but not how email communication works. There's no need for explicit answer to any email, otherwise people would never stop responding.
> not how email communication works. There's no need for explicit answer to any email Obviously context dependent. For time-sensitive emails, it’s common to follow up with a call if receipt isn’t acknowledged.
I kind of get why we don’t like this in email, but for SMS and Slack I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reactions. They’re a way to say “I received this and have a positive reaction to it, with no further communication necessary”. Replaces a lot of useless typing I had to do to sound polite when saying “fine, no further comment”. And then getting a notification from the other party acknowledging my acknowledgment… yuck.
It should be entirely socially acceptable to respond to any trivial message with "ACKNOWLEDGED" á la Picard
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With a thumbs-up I know they've read it, and that's worth quiet a bit in this asynchronous communication world of ours.
We used to (and I believe still) have Read Receipts for this.
Can an anti-reaction person explain what they find so distasteful about them? Is it that the other person wasn't willing to make the effort to type is seen as disrespectful? struggling to see what the problem is
Reactions make more sense to me in a kind of communication where you're doing real-time conversational stuff and brevity is important, such as instant messaging. In email, it doesn't really add anything.
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SMS is being replaced with RCS, which does have reactions…even Apple is adding RCS… Welcome to the future.
RCS is already here on Android, but I keep it disabled in order to avoid read receipts and typing indicators.
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Genuine question: why?
This question is how we get opinionated software that slowly-but-surely stops serving the user. "I don't like it" should be a perfectly valid reason for turning off a feature.
Also, I think this philosophy that all software must be infinitely configurable, so that it can serve every whim of every possible user, and that if it has a clear idea of what it wants to do and how it wants to achieve that, and sometimes that way it is designed to be used, it's somehow unethical or abusive of the user or something, is the fundamental sickness at the heart of open-source software design. It turns programs into unclear bloated piles of buttons and switches that are overcomplicated to use and impossible to properly quality assure and impossible to design in a coherent way. For powerful professional creation tools (CAD software, publishing, programming, etc) that will be the primary software used for decades by experienced and educated professionals who will want to optimize their workflow and who have the time to invest in deeply learning that one specific tool, then I think that philosophy is fine, but for random chat apps and stuff, it's just frustrating.
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The UX problem is you send an e-mail, and someone "thumbs up" a response, and then you block the response and assume that they didn't care to respond, while they think they have responded.
No. When you block an email the sender will get a notification email from their mail server that their message was blocked. They will not assume anything for very long.