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? :)

  • ansik@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You’re completely right, it’s multi-action sliders that I’m thinking off!
    Thanks for going over your reasoning, seems well thought out and I can see my self “chasing” the boost arrow with my finger if done in the way I’ve described so point taken :)