I heard that votes have been changed to behave closer to how people would expect, and boost is staying here as well. So I had an idea how to bring it all together in the interface.

Sidenote: you don’t have to click the links here, the images are also posted inline in the comments below.

An app (either Artemis or an official one) might use a swipe gesture to visually hint at the relation between upvoting and boosting, as shown in the attached animation. Here’s a static app mockup with both swipe levels displayed. I’d also imagine that there should be a setting that auto-upvotes posts when boosting.

And on the web, it’s probably a good idea to consolidate all the voting buttons into a single block by adding an additional button at the top.

Edit: I’m disappointed in you guys. How come no one noticed the memes? :)

  • VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I like the overal effect but it’s hiding the true nature of boosting.

    Boosting shares a piece of content with your followers. Favouriting does not. Kbin does not yet contain a follower feed, but it is planned. This is what that looks like on Mastodon:

    • fearout@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I know, but you probably won’t be able to explain it to the whole user base, in my opinion. Making it somewhat visual might add to the general understanding. And probably increase boosting without extra incentives.

      • curiosityLynx@kglitch.social
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        1 year ago

        imo the boost symbol should be replaced by something like the retweet symbol or the symbol tumblr uses for their reblogging. That would make it clearer what it does. I’d also rename “boost” to something like “echo”.

        • fearout@kbin.socialOP
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          1 year ago

          That in turn kinda hides the part where it actually boosts the post. Idk, but I feel like it’s a separate entity, not simply a retweet.

            • VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              Secondary? The boosting of a post is secondary to the… boosting?

              I’d be down with the use of a reblog/retweet icon. It’s ubiquitous enough that a majority of people would understand it.

              EDIT. Parent was edited. I agree the upvote is the “side effect”.