Timeline for Notify a user why nothing happened
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| Nov 16, 2016 at 5:50 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 5:35 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 12:11 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "Obviously, every person that has beta tested my software thinks something is broken." - they are right. Breaking certain functionality is the purpose of any content filtering software. | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 4:41 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Aug 19, 2016 at 16:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackUX/status/766679087570190336 | ||
| Aug 18, 2016 at 4:19 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 14:39 | answer | added | neopickaze | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 13:43 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 10:46 | answer | added | whybird | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 17:15 | comment | added | user71831 | @KenMohnkern I can parse and inspect html as it comes in so I could theoretically run all of the adblock plus filters on the html and remove the elements, I'm just trying to avoid actually modifying other peoples websites. I realize it's a tough problem and appreciate your time thinking about it. I'm starting to think a browser addon that simply flashes the icon or something is the least invasive and annoying way to give feedback. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 17:07 | comment | added | Ken Mohnkern | I'm still trying to prevent the user from clicking things that don't do anything. Can you add a visual of some sort to the unclickable items? (I avoid clicking any Google results that have their little "Ad" icon.) | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 16:15 | comment | added | user71831 | @tonytrucco the filter gracefully fails the http transaction as to avoid interrupting user experience as little as possible. So for example a user searches something, but the top 3 are sponsored links that have tracking code attached. The user doesn't know this but has the option enabled to not allow such connections. He clicks, nothing happens, blames me. lol I know it's crazy but even though they installed it, they configured it, this is how they view it: like it's broken, not doing its job. This is the problem I have, they have no feedback. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | user71831 | @KenMohnkern I'm trying to avoid modifying "the service". I could pilfer through the html etc delivered to the end user and remove everything that would be a blocked link, but then I'm transparently modifying the service which might mess up someone elses delivered service and plus there are legal concerns with that. | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 15:40 | comment | added | tonytrucco | Can you give a few more details on what exactly is going on? Is the filter refusing an action because it would result in 0 hits? | |
| Sep 1, 2015 at 14:39 | comment | added | Ken Mohnkern | If the system knows ahead of time which commands will result in no action, why not disable those commands? Better to prevent user confusion than to explain things afterward. | |
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 11:38 | history | asked | user71831 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |