Re: [Social-discuss] Languages -- let's make a web application

[Matt Lee]

On 03/28/2010 03:23 PM, Kaliya wrote:

> I pay a great service provider to host my blogs online.  This is a fair
> trade. I can't and don't want to learn out to make a web server work. 
> 99% of people don't either.  So if you are building a social application
> you want to have wide scale adoption you need to think about regular
> people's capacities and also USABILITY.

This is also why I think something in a browser would be more
understandable by a typical user.

Case in point: I will likely wind up hosting a GNU social setup for at
least my immediate family who currently use Facebook. It needs to be so
easy that they can just login and use it, without installing software.

> I am curious how many usability specialists are on this list.

Yes, me too.

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