https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62266
--- Comment #26 from Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> --- This change cannot go through without thorough user testing. And not just experienced users, readers need to be represented as well. "Google and Facebook must have done the homework, so we don't have to" is a ridiculous idea. It's very surprising to see you mention that they must be following a perfect process to design their products, following the amount of doubt you've displayed about the decision-making process in your own organization. If there are companies that are likely to design their products without caring about users' direct feedback, it's Google and Facebook. The millions of "likes" on petitions to bring back their older UIs should be an indication that they're not always acting with usability or their users in mind. As for deliberately making confusing UIs, I think they've proven to do just that repeatedly in order to increase their ad clicks. Inexperienced web users confuse sponsored links and the real deal, in Google results and Facebook feeds alike and that's entirely by design. It's dangerous to assume that each of their products has the best possible usability in mind. And not just because they have to consider the effect on revenues, they're very large organizations and those history-modifying features we've found aren't very prominent. We're not talking about their front page here. They're very likely to have been built by small teams, interns, etc. and not necessarily doing proper user testing. As for nuking the history without the history API, where have you seen that happen? I consider that such support for older browsers is impossible until proven otherwise. That's another large weakness of this idea, which I've brought up before. People switching between browsers will have a drastically different experience. And basic navigation falls into "grade A" features, imho. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
