I heard that votes have been changed to behave closer to how people would expect, and boost is staying here as well. So I had an idea how to bring it all together in the interface.

Sidenote: you don’t have to click the links here, the images are also posted inline in the comments below.

An app (either Artemis or an official one) might use a swipe gesture to visually hint at the relation between upvoting and boosting, as shown in the attached animation. Here’s a static app mockup with both swipe levels displayed. I’d also imagine that there should be a setting that auto-upvotes posts when boosting.

And on the web, it’s probably a good idea to consolidate all the voting buttons into a single block by adding an additional button at the top.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ah, it does move, my mistake. Should the image link then be removed from screen-reader output when it is no longer on the screen? Would I have to unboost a post to be able to expand the image preview again, and then reboost?

    A setting to turn off animations would be lovely, I hope someone is able to build that in if they implement this.

    The icon distinction for the third image with the three in a column is the one I think isn’t quite distinct. I see a different version is diagonal though, which helps a lot. If i understand correctly. I am viewing from a small screen with sight problems though.

    And I wasn’t clear with my both like / boost question, I apologise. Is it still possible for me to boost a post without also liking it?

    Edit: it would be good to check if Apple has patented this design interaction too, they love to patent everything and then sue.

    • fearout@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Have you seen how it works on iPhones? You release the block at one of the positions, it upvotes/boosts the post and returns to normal. It’s not patented, it’s part of system interactions and is included in Apple’s human interface guidelines. Apollo used a similar thing, for example, but it’s used everywhere from notes to mail.

      Boosting and upvoting are separate actions, and as I suggested in the post it’s probably a good idea to give users a setting to upvote on boost or simply boost the post. So it would be down to user preference, nothing forced. So if you were to turn/leave this option off, the boost action would only boost the post.