Oh! Is that what the dotted cartouche around a reaction means? That it’s applied to an inline portion of text instead of to the whole post? That wasn’t obvious to me before.
I’m surprised it wasn’t obvious. Has your mouse never hovered over one of them before? What’s different about our user experiences that you’re only learning this now, where I discovered is (I assume) in the first few days that LW reacts were a thing?
I’ve hovered over them to see the applicable text or lack thereof before, yes, and I was aware that both types of reaction were possible. Overall I don’t have a clear enough memory to say why I didn’t pick up on this connection sooner, but my off-the-cuff guess would be that seeing both inline-portion and whole-comment reactions on the same comment is rare, which would mean there wasn’t a clear juxtaposition to show that it’s only present sometimes, and my visual processing would likely have discarded the cartouche as a decorative separator.
Oh! Is that what the dotted cartouche around a reaction means? That it’s applied to an inline portion of text instead of to the whole post? That wasn’t obvious to me before.
Yeah, the UI isn’t amazing. It’s kind of a tricky problem to work on for a few reasons, but we should make the UI a lot more obvious.
I’m surprised it wasn’t obvious. Has your mouse never hovered over one of them before? What’s different about our user experiences that you’re only learning this now, where I discovered is (I assume) in the first few days that LW reacts were a thing?
I’ve hovered over them to see the applicable text or lack thereof before, yes, and I was aware that both types of reaction were possible. Overall I don’t have a clear enough memory to say why I didn’t pick up on this connection sooner, but my off-the-cuff guess would be that seeing both inline-portion and whole-comment reactions on the same comment is rare, which would mean there wasn’t a clear juxtaposition to show that it’s only present sometimes, and my visual processing would likely have discarded the cartouche as a decorative separator.