hi coposters!
we've determined that quick share on mobile is causing seemingly-unrelated issues with touch events not being registered on iOS devices. because of this and the issues around accidental sharing on android, we have chosen to temporarily disable mobile quick share until we can fix these issues permanently.
sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for using cohost!
Oh no this is a convenience, not an inconvenience.
It only ever fired when I was trying to like something, not when I actually wanted to use it. I personally find it better without the functionality. (iOS)
Realistically, Perhaps the rechost button should be made into a "quick rechost", and a new button should be added between it and like, to take over the current "rechost and add content" behavior (perhaps the refresh icon but with a speech bubble in the bottom right of it).
You can turn the setting off for yourself if you don’t like it just fyi
Really??? I didn't see an option when I looked.
I see that now but I swear that wasn't there before.
Then again, neither was the Cohost+ settings (I'm not subscribed but now it shows the beat time checkbox), so maybe it was a bug?
aw, geez, I also didn't realize that was there, I would have turned it off months ago.
looks like I can't disable it while it's disabled for everyone, which, like, is understandable, buy a little frustrating
re: accidental android shares: i have been wondering based on my own experience whether the issue was just "thumb naturally rests on the share button while scrolling" and inability to duplicate was staff having different sized phones.
if so, a fix for that might be a different motion. for instance, long press and then drag the arrows around in a circle to crank the share mechanism
Why not just a button? Not everything needs a gesture, and this makes it easier on desktop users.
You're right, but also "crank the chost" sounds irrationally appealing.
This is, respectfully, confusing. Not everything needs to be a keyboard shortcut or gesture, let alone a combination.
A simple button is more accessible, especially for those who require the use of accessibility devices to navigate the web, but also to those who may just struggle with memory or motor control just enough where keyboard shortcuts and gestures are more effort than "Open in new tab".
I don't disagree that it's undiscoverable; quick-share on desktop was not an announced feature, it was added by me one morning because I wanted it for myself. When we are ready for it to be discoverable, we will make it discoverable.
Unfortunately, we don't always have the option to just add more buttons. Buttons take up space. Adding more icon buttons makes each individual one's action less clear, buttons with labels, while clearer, take up even more space. Our users are on an extremely wide array of screen sizes; there are widely used android devices so narrow that, even without any sort of system-level zoom applied, the comment label and existing like/share buttons barely fit in the footer. When changing UI like that, we have to be careful to keep things legible (in size and meaning) and prevent overloading.
That said, clearly we don't know the right path here yet (if we did, we would have shipped that instead of a hidden shift+click or broken-only-in-production-and-not-in-testing-for-some-fucking-reason touch gesture) so we're putting the broken implementation back in the oven until we figure out something better.
Fair enough.
Also, interesting about the width issue, seeing as I use an iPhone mini which is, well, pretty small as is. Though I do set the zoom to 85% just out of personal preference. — Perhaps it's a DPI issue (unless these other devices are not phones?)? (Low DPI devices causing the page scale to be larger than intended?)
Have you thought about testing using the meta tag to adjust the viewport to a minimum width? This would, in theory, ensure that you always have X pixels to work with, even on narrow devices. Though there's tradeoffs (text being smaller by default on smaller displays).
Finally, A quick suggestion: make the rechost button a menu; on press, present the options to "quick share" and "repost"? This would alleviate the "extra button" problem whilst providing clear user choice in action.
Personally I would advocate for something simpler like a surprise warioware minigame or a jigsaw puzzle but that sounds nice too
(accidentally rechosting sucks frfr)
I have a desperate need to crank the mechanism in my day to day life, so this would be the best option, I think
while you're working on quick share, i wanted to say
while it was enabled, i was finding quick share almost impossible to use intentionally, while as mentioned irritatingly easy to use accidentally. i like the idea of having a quick share but it needs to be ... Better...
Thank you. Quick Share never worked on either of my iOS devices, and the touch events not registering were frustrating. Hope the fix is simple!
And then there's me, for whom it worked as intended with very few accidental activations. :c
I do agree it could have a different discoverable action to do a quick share, but I don't have any ideas...
As a user I would prefer some kind of modal, whether it be a quick dialogue to choose between simple rechost or rechost+ (i dunno what to call it) or ideally (but definitely harder) move the whole rechost UI into a modal so I can do it either way without losing my place in the feed.
Is it possible to reliably detect double tap or hold? Since that would be way harder to accidentally trigger but still easy to quick share
