Users don't consider choice screens to be burdensome, and adding a choice screen doesn't appreciably increase setup time.
There are some nuances to this. Users like choice screens *during device setup* but they *don't* like choice screens that pop up the first time they use a browser. That makes total sense: "choosing a browser" is colorably part of the "setting up your gadget" task.
18/
Cory Doctorow /
npub1yx…75qvv
2024-08-12 20:22:44
in reply to nevent1q…yq0f
Author Public Key
npub1yxzkmtuyctjw2pffp6e9uvyrkp29hrqra2tm3xp3z9707z06muxsg75qvvPublished at
2024-08-12 20:22:44Event JSON
{
"id": "157c2a65a13b5a3c7e6f3d78393ad3daaf7d397c269fdf99ded902e900c3f02e",
"pubkey": "21856daf84c2e4e505290eb25e3083b0545b8c03ea97b89831117cff09fadf0d",
"created_at": 1723486964,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"d1660cd5ef030f289775b0e80d2bc27f401ae2567b8b0ce335c821a7c1cd782c",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"content-warning",
"Long thread/18"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/112950441725283119",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "Users don't consider choice screens to be burdensome, and adding a choice screen doesn't appreciably increase setup time.\n\nThere are some nuances to this. Users like choice screens *during device setup* but they *don't* like choice screens that pop up the first time they use a browser. That makes total sense: \"choosing a browser\" is colorably part of the \"setting up your gadget\" task. \n\n18/",
"sig": "d5d8750d4194eae76c93e10c49ab1046310bf4453faf32a450e1d6e1b792e92d90b10a89682bbd96750e5c605bfbf8666e4d0a1d3605537211c298137c7638d0"
}