UI should match users' expectations rather than always being consistent with the rest of the world: https://medium.com/@jmspool/consistency-in-design-is-the-wrong-approach-3cfbc87a327
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Whilst LLMs don't always give an accurate answer, the UI is really compelling. I keep finding users whose favourite way of doing research is an LLM.
I'm not a fan of the mastodon web UI behaviour where moving down with cursor keys 'snaps' to the next toot.
Is it possible to disable this, so my cursor keys always move the page by a consistent visual amount?
I've poked in the settings and didn't see anything obvious.
The "line of death", where the browser UI splits between trusted UI elements and UI controlled by the website.
Also argues that HTTP warnings are better than HTTPS padlocks, because there's incentive to spoof padlocks lower on the page.
https://emilymstark.com/2022/12/18/death-to-the-line-of-death.html