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How is Android's share menu such garbage? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You can't remove things from it, you cannot rearrange it... Useless things and suggestions get stuck at the top.

I'm on Android 13. Have they made any improvements in the newer versions of Android?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mine has an ex from a decade ago at the top of the list. I haven't communicated with that woman in years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same. I always have to dig to find kde connect but for some reason my ex will stay number one for all eternity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Android 14 here, no improvements at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

When UI/UX was becoming the hot ticket in the late 90s/early 00s, the lesson always beaten into your head was to make navigating simpler, with the fewest clicks possible. Now they bury everything.

YouTube used to let you make playlists on the fly, now you have to click into a small sub menu that is hard to touch without stopping the current video. Even disconnecting from a network is now an extra click than it used to. Google designers have totally lost the point. They are the reason people pay more for less with an apple phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Please, you need to be more specific. Android has half a dozen distinctly different share menus, and there are distinctly different reasons why each one is garbage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Dark patterns maybe. Gotta make it hard to share to Tubular etc.