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vogon
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working on adding the ability for people to set their posts invisible to logged-out users1 and having to draw a formal decision tree for all of the different variants of showing a post we have for the first time, because otherwise it would be completely unmanageable

the next time you see someone making fun of a product for having some absurd decision tree for a particular thing -- the one I've seen before is making fun of slack for having a complex decision tree for whether to show a notification or not -- please consider that sometimes software that seems like it should be simple actually has to be complex to conform with user expectations


  1. this chart implies that you can also set only your all-ages posts to be visible to logged-out users, and you will; however, for weird technical reasons that are too boring to get into, that won't be landing with the ability to hide all of your posts from logged-out users, but rather at a later date



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in reply to @vogon's post:

i remember seeing "the wise child" in some of Jess's posts, but I wonder if I missed the "grow up" ID the first time! it still reads to me like a kid is getting bodied by a flowchart, so i'm very endeared by it

It's so weird how people like... don't get it in some cases. I mean, you're going to need basically one branch of possibilities for every related setting, typically.