Steven, thanks for the blog - have really enjoyed it! Prompted by your email on the new chat feature, I thought about joining a discussion there. But ofc did not RTFM and spent time installing the app on Android (while in my mind questioning the wisdom of forcing a text chat onto a mobile device instead of a PC keyboard) just to learn that the chat feature does not work there (why would you launch a feature only on one platform?). Then re-read your post that says that as a registered subscriber you can always join the community - only to learn that there is no community anymore with the latest post (comments disabled)? This whole 30 min episode this morning made me laugh - at the thought that we are here analyzing past UX blunders to death while not realizing that we still today get the same feeling of frustration when we encounter unexpected UX flows the as we did back when we first tried to use Windows 8 on a real workday.
Oh my I am so sorry. It seems as though there are two things. First, I’m sorry the instructions weren’t super clear about the need for iOS to participate in threads. I passed along the feedback but so far for Substack, iOS has been (intentionally) leading the Android app. Second, it was my fault that comments were disabled on the last post. A while back the default changed and sometimes I forget at publish time to change it. I corrected that on the past post. So sorry.
Steven, thanks for the blog - have really enjoyed it! Prompted by your email on the new chat feature, I thought about joining a discussion there. But ofc did not RTFM and spent time installing the app on Android (while in my mind questioning the wisdom of forcing a text chat onto a mobile device instead of a PC keyboard) just to learn that the chat feature does not work there (why would you launch a feature only on one platform?). Then re-read your post that says that as a registered subscriber you can always join the community - only to learn that there is no community anymore with the latest post (comments disabled)? This whole 30 min episode this morning made me laugh - at the thought that we are here analyzing past UX blunders to death while not realizing that we still today get the same feeling of frustration when we encounter unexpected UX flows the as we did back when we first tried to use Windows 8 on a real workday.
Oh my I am so sorry. It seems as though there are two things. First, I’m sorry the instructions weren’t super clear about the need for iOS to participate in threads. I passed along the feedback but so far for Substack, iOS has been (intentionally) leading the Android app. Second, it was my fault that comments were disabled on the last post. A while back the default changed and sometimes I forget at publish time to change it. I corrected that on the past post. So sorry.
I always enjoyed the CEO dinner back in the old DRG days. :-)
ScottGu in 2008: "If we keep it up, based on current data the last Windows application as we know them to be will be written in 2014". Not far off