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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 10:59 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">It is that time again!</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><strong>Topic:</strong> How to design to avoid configuration</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><span class="chatlog__markdown-mention">#fishbowl-audience</span> conversation begins here: <a href="https://discord.com/channels/239737791225790464/708458209131757598/820371782115655750" onclick="scrollToMessage(event, '820371782115655750')">https://discord.com/channels/239737791225790464/708458209131757598/820371782115655750</a>

So, this topic was prompted by a message from <span class="chatlog__markdown-mention" title="demetrispanos#5588">@demetrispanos</span> a while ago about configuration in software design. I'll let him introduce the topic in a bit (and give everyone their fishbowl role), but I just wanted to introduce the subject quickly so everyone is on the same page.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So Demetri's original message was:
<div class="chatlog__markdown-quote"><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-border"></div><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-content">I am anti-configuration, and in fact consider configuration a bug not a feature. The designer should just make it good to begin with.</div></div></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And this got me thinking about configuration in software in general. The full pitch for this topic can be found here: <a href="https://github.com/AsafGartner/hmn_fishbowl/discussions/22" target="_blank">https://github.com/AsafGartner/hmn_fishbowl/discussions/22</a></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So some of the questions we're interested in are:
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><span class="chatlog__markdown-mention" title="demetrispanos#5588">@demetrispanos</span> has some initial thoughts, so at this point I'll let him open while I give everyone else the fishbowl role.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:04 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">ok thanks ben, I will paste a short text here summarizing where I'm coming from</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I tried a few other options and pasting an image from my editor seems the least-bad among bad options given the formatting on different devices</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">just to be clear, I'm not arguing that one never needs configuration</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">but I've found this spectrum useful in thinking about what input I'm demanding from a user</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and I consider configuration a cost, because no one comes to your app because they want to configure stuff</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">it may be a worthwhile cost if adding the configuration allows the user to access a valuable set of features that otherwise wouldn't be possible, or appropriate</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">but ultimately it is a cost, and needs to justify its presence ... it has no value on its own</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:08 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I like the terminology you're using here, I think it will be helpful throughout this conversation</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:09 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">One thing that I definitely think I agree on is the 'separate channel' point. Configuration files are generally not great, nobody wants to use them. What reasons would someone have as a developer to have that, instead of providing the option inside the program itself?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">At the very least, one could argue that you should be able to change anything you can change inside a config file from inside the actual software while it's running (similar to how options typically work)</span>

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One thing that I definitely think I agree on is the 'separate channel' point. Configuration files are generally not great, nobody wants to use them. What reasons would someone have as a developer to have that, instead of providing the option inside the program itself?                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">a common motivation for this is "headless" software like web servers</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">though you could imagine a web server that accepts config input over an http request</span>

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At the very least, one could argue that you should be able to change anything you can change inside a config file from inside the actual software while it's running (similar to how options typically work)                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">To this point you can easily imagine (within some standardized config format) having an external configuration program</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Something that provides a better config experience, and can serve multiple programs</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">But I think more importantly here, having something like config text files or over-configurability in general usually indicates a design failure</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">going back to "config as cost", we can combine that with the "designer should just make it good" part and ask ... <em>why</em> is the designer shoving this cost on me?</span>

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But I think more importantly here, having something like config text files or over-configurability in general usually indicates a design failure                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yes, I think that regardless of your UI for configuration, there are still a lot of downsides. However, maybe better config UX can push it toward "options" in Demetri's terminology?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Many times it's a straight-up <em>avoidance</em> of design</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Because there is no designer</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Who are often both a) design-phobic and b) config-happy</span>

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Many times it's a straight-up <em>avoidance</em> of design                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yes absolutely true, that systems with elaborate configuration often are trying not to take any stand on what should be good practice or preferred</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">As opposed to the average end-user who, excepting some circumstances for power users with heavily-used software, just want the thing to work well out of the box with default configuration and only want to edit trivial things like color scheme, if anything at all</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Now with perfect configurability this wouldn't be <em>that bad</em> since other users could distribute good configs, but more configurability doesn't just mean less-designed defaults, it generally means a less-designed and less coherent system overall</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I should mention one area where "config files" are a generally desired solution, which is when you want to do reproducible automated deployments/builds</span>

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I should mention one area where "config files" are a generally desired solution, which is when you want to do reproducible automated deployments/builds                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">In this case I would almost not call them config files - at that point it's just an API technically</span>

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I should mention one area where "config files" are a generally desired solution, which is when you want to do reproducible automated deployments/builds                                    </span>

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In this case I would almost not call them config files - at that point it's just an API technically                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah I agree that at this point it is moving toward "essential input"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">for example, if you want to ship an app and pin some particular library dependency, that is now essential</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">actually yeah that's a good point</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">within your terminology, that is the primary channel of input</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">right, so whether it's "configuration" is context-dependent</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think that's an interesting and important distinction, because I would certainly tend to class webserver parameters as "config files"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think that there can't be the expectation that the end-user ever <em>has</em> to interact with a configuration at all, for the program to work well. In which case, you have to really have something of value that's gained from the different configuration. What are the power users actually getting out of the configuration? If it's "the program works better for this use case", you should probably find a better way to make it work better for that use case out of the box</span>

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I think that's an interesting and important distinction, because I would certainly tend to class webserver parameters as "config files"                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah and yet we feel very differently about an nginx.conf vs a vimrc</span>

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I think that there can't be the expectation that the end-user ever <em>has</em> to interact with a configuration at all, for the program to work well. In which case, you have to really have something of value that's gained from the different configuration. What are the power users actually getting out of the configuration? If it's "the program works better for this use case", you should probably find a better way to make it work better for that use case out of the box                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yeah there is a philosophical underpinning to this</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">A "fear" of design</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And constraints mean "not equally good for everyone"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Which means even if the design is great you'll have some fraction of 4/5 star users complaining about certain aspects of the design</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:22 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">But many companies (or individuals, or whatever) have a very hard time not giving undue significance to the squeaky wheel</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote"><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-border"></div><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-content">What are the power users actually getting out of the configuration
</div></div>I was tempted to add a category to my taxonomy, and hesitated because it was a bit of a joke, but maybe it's worth mentioning ... there's a category of configuration I'd call "nerdsniping bait"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">things that actually make almost no difference and yet waste an hour of many people's time getting it <em>juuuuust</em> right</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and the collective cost across all of society is on the scale months or years of lost productivity if the application is popular</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">That style of configuration I hope we can all agree is a bad thing, a failure of design. Although, I'd be curious to know if you have a concrete example in mind.</span>

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That style of configuration I hope we can all agree is a bad thing, a failure of design. Although, I'd be curious to know if you have a concrete example in mind.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">unfortunately one person's nerdsnipe is another person's important ergonomics</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">speaking personally, I find editor color schemes to be a huge waste of life</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">pick one and use it, then go do something useful</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><em>rob pike intensifies</em></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">but I know people who have easily spent 10+ hours pondering and evaluating color schemes</span>

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<em>rob pike intensifies</em>                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well no Pike is even worse to where he considers color schemes literally net negative haha</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Which is basically an unsupportable position</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:27 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">true, but for the sake of focus let's keep pikebashing to <span class="chatlog__markdown-mention">#fishbowl-audience</span> <img loading="lazy" class="chatlog__emoji " alt="😛" title="stuck_out_tongue" src="files\twemoji_1f61b.svg"></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">leave my dumb joke be</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">anyway I don't want to derail too much on the nerdsnipe aspect, I think it's worth considering but it's not really the heart of the problem</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I guess to bring it back to the core of 'provide something good out of the box', I've personally felt that the appearance of your program should either be handcrafted, or inherit its appearance from other programs for the sake of consistency. People need to approach the visual aspect as a design decision, and make something that is nice for the majority of users instead of trying to make it perfect for everyone.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yeah, and to Demetri's point I think aesthetic stuff is easily the worst cost-to-benefit ratio of anything you could let users configure</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So it provides a very obvious initial example of something the author should just design. And actually I think even your "power" users might appreciate having the decision made for them too, in the end.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well, from a mechanical perspective sure</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">But from a quality of life perspective spending 40 hours a week engaging with awful aesthetics is not great</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Like how in the Go world, "go fmt is no one's favorite, but go fmt is everyone's favorite"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">When you have no power to change trivial things, you readily accept them</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(That said of course just providing good aesthetics out of the box with minimal tweaking required/allowed is ideal)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yeah aesthetics do matter, but <em>configurable</em> aesthetics are clearly a waste of time. Enough people are broadly <s>designed</s> aligned on aesthetics anyway that you can just make a good decision pretty easily.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(Perhaps with lightweight options for the edges of that space.)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:35 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well no most programmers have bottom of the barrel aesthetic sensibilities</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And part of why the most programmery software is the worst aesthetically</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:35 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I'm talking about what aesthetics people <em>like</em>, not what people will think to create</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:35 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote"><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-border"></div><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-content"><em>configurable</em> aesthetics are clearly a waste of time
</div></div>I agree, but to use demitri's terminology, I do think that<em>optional</em> aesthetics have a lot of value to them</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Oh well you said "broadly designed" at first and threw me off <img loading="lazy" class="chatlog__emoji " alt="😛" title="stuck_out_tongue" src="files\twemoji_1f61b.svg"></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:36 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yes I apologize for a stupid typo</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:37 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If Discord were to have a team of artists come up with 5 new themes, there's a pretty good chance they could come up with something I'd like. Maybe one with rainbow highlights, maybe one that uses pastels. But if they gave me the ability to spend that time to do it myself, I would take a lot more time than the artists to make something way worse.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And the effort would be duplicated by anyone who wants the same thing as me, leading to a much higher cost</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So the option is definitely a valuable thing to have, but you can't make it into work for your users.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yep, for sure, and I think a critical part of Demetri's opening ideas is that we need to consider the cost it puts on our users.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So what about stuff that is a little more critical than aesthetics?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">We can probably continue to consider configurable editors if we want to think of some concrete examples.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:41 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">different countries have different keyboard layouts, and not necessarily all the keys that are well placed on an US keyboard is decent on a scandinavian keyboard</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:42 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Ok, so things like keymappings are maybe a more directly beneficial piece of config. But there again there is strong value in good design up front (otherwise all your mappings are two-keystroke things like shift-F6, ctrl-U)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:43 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and there's uncommon cases of color blindness, no point in using a text editor if the user can't see the text</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:43 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Ok, so those are benefits, but if we're considering costs, how much cost does it put on users? And what can affect that cost?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">As with everything in programming, the benefits are obvious in isolation.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I believe that it should be possible to detect the user's keyboard layout, right? If your keybindings are more positional, if you see a need to support more keyboard layouts, you should be able to have things 'just work' instead of having the user get things working themselves</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Color blindness is also something that you can design for; using patterns and high contrast instead of relying on color to differentiate things</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yes, so in both of these examples a lot of the user cost could be mitigated by good up-front design.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So design is still an important factor even when the system is configurable. And if you're already being forced to design things, at some point you have to question whether the fringe benefits offset the cost of allowing config.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Because there's another aspect of config Demetri brought up in his intro, which is fragmentation</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Things that are configurable will vary between users, and will be more work for the software author to support, but will also result in less sharing of understanding between users.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">At the extremes, the way you work may be totally different, aesthetically and functionally, from another user of the "same" software.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Aesthetic configuration doesn't really cause meaningful fragmentation, but functional configuration certainly can.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">That's a very good point. If you're learning to use a piece of software through someone who has done an amount of configuration, you'll have to do the same configuration to follow along in a lot of cases</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">You see this in the extreme in Vim and friends, where the people who teach Vim forget the extent to which they have modified the system, added conveniences, changed subtle parameters years ago.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">You see it in shells too, where people have vast networks of aliases.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And the result is really that the system the power users use is fundamentally different from the original system.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:53 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">One question to ask might be "Is the system the power users use <em>better</em>?", because they might actually be making something far easier to do than it was before. For instance, while not exactly a configuration per say, I have a startup script that I've been working on recently, which has reduced the time it takes for me to open up everything that I typically have open from an hour or two to about 30 seconds.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:54 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Actually re: just detecting things instead of user configuration, one of the most common frustrations I run into as a software user is programs that don't use global configuration or interoperability when they trivially could</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">For example not detecting the system setting for light/dark theme</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I can set my system settings on that to change based on the time of day</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">But 80% of programs won't follow suit</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(Or more)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I don't want to configure that on a per-program basis, and it also makes my total configuration more fragile and less automatable</span>

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One question to ask might be "Is the system the power users use <em>better</em>?", because they might actually be making something far easier to do than it was before. For instance, while not exactly a configuration per say, I have a startup script that I've been working on recently, which has reduced the time it takes for me to open up everything that I typically have open from an hour or two to about 30 seconds.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:56 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So is the system designed by the power users better <em>in general</em>, or better for specific cases that wouldn't apply to a large subset of the user base? Does it depend on the situation?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If the power user extensions result in a generally better system for everyone, then I feel like that stuff should be part of the base program and not even a part of the configuration. But if it's specific, then maybe there's not as much you can do and the configuration is actually providing real benefit to a subset of users.</span>

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If the power user extensions result in a generally better system for everyone, then I feel like that stuff should be part of the base program and not even a part of the configuration. But if it's specific, then maybe there's not as much you can do and the configuration is actually providing real benefit to a subset of users.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:59 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">a good example of this is vi motions, which I think are seen as power-user features from the outside but once you train with them a bit they prove their value even to beginners ... I would consider motions to be something you expect almost all vi/vim installations to use, and only very very rarely should they be configured differently or disabled</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 11:59 AM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">going off on another tangent, take tmux for example, the default tmux hotkey-combination to access it is by default ctrl+b, which causes you to move your whole damn arm to hit it, and it's used alot so it's really not well thought out default setting</span>

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If the power user extensions result in a generally better system for everyone, then I feel like that stuff should be part of the base program and not even a part of the configuration. But if it's specific, then maybe there's not as much you can do and the configuration is actually providing real benefit to a subset of users.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I suppose "better" isn't the right word here. It's not that it's better so much as that it provides a way to do things that would be difficult or time-consuming to do otherwise. Nobody will ever want my exact startup script, so a premade solution wouldn't help... except, wait, it actually would. If the operating system gave me a way to just list a bunch of programs I want to start up, with the options I need to open the right things automatically, then it would be far better than the batch file I use right now. What I'm saying is, look and see if what they're doing provides a benefit, and see if you can either create a simple, unified way to let your users do that sort of thing while shifting it closer to an option than a configuration.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Right, and so even in a system where you benefit from configurability, the design of the base system still matters and can probably even reduce the amount of work you have to do in the configuration layer.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So I want to revisit a point <span class="chatlog__markdown-mention" title=".bmp#5134">@.bmp</span> said earlier:
<div class="chatlog__markdown-quote"><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-border"></div><div class="chatlog__markdown-quote-content">more configurability doesn't just mean less-designed defaults, it generally means a less-designed and less coherent system overall</div></div></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Configuration is at a minimum a bunch of knobs to turn, but I want to explore how the idea of configuration (and the idea that it is <em>good</em>) affects the design of systems overall.</span>

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So I want to revisit a point <span class="chatlog__markdown-mention" title=".bmp#5134">@.bmp</span> said earlier:
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah the cliche situation for this in app ui designs is "should the focus jump to the next element after you click on the target? or should it stay where it is? ==&gt; dunno, make it a config option"</span>

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What knobs do we even have?                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">This is a question I was wondering too, because it seems like most configurations could just be implemented as options.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:05 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So my concern is that when you design software assuming that users will be able to configure it, you will actually fail to solve the problems that your software should actually solve.</span>

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                    <div class="chatlog__short-timestamp" title="13-Mar-21 12:06 PM">12:06</div>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think that to a very large extent, the purpose of creating software is to make decisions about how things should be done, so that others can benefit from your thinking about the problem.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And if you write software assuming "users will be able to configure this", will you ever be able to make your software do anything meaningful?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Right configuration is often <em>deferral</em></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I mean, really, it's <em>always</em> deferral</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">The question is, when is deferral a good idea</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If you're making the user essentially design their own software out of configurable building blocks you've fucked up</span>

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So my concern is that when you design software assuming that users will be able to configure it, you will actually fail to solve the problems that your software should actually solve.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yes and this compounds nonlinearly, maybe exponentially</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">it's one thing to say "user, please choose these 3 things, each from a small set of options"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">it's another to have 50 options of unclear interaction</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">But, sometimes it's useful to give some users that power, especially if they can distribute that extra software to others, right? So how do you navigate those decisions?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I don't think it's impossible to design good "building block" software, but my concern is about assuming building blocks too early.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">In the overall space of software design it's very rare that you want to defer that power</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(In the interest of creating good software at least)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I mean another aspect we haven't discussed much is default configurations</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So in the event that you do have moderately configurable software and it's not a disaster</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">You should still be shipping the best default configuration you possibly can</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Such that the greatest number of users configure the fewest number of options</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(The default is good enough that most users use most of the default settings forever)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well and importantly, your default config needs to convey some idea of how the software is intended to be used.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Which to me implies that you actually <em>designed</em> a system in a way that is useful, and maybe later found what could be an option.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">This is kind of where the nerdsniping aspect comes in because a lot of programmers have a bad model of their audience, I wouldn't be that surprised to hear some arguments back about how configuration is actually enjoyable
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think that generally, you want to figure out what your users want to do, that they can't at the moment, but which you can't explicitly support for all users. E.G. I want to start up a bunch of programs when opening up, and enough other people want to start up programs too. The thing you can't decide is which programs to start up(that has to be a configuration if you want to provide this feature), but you CAN provide an interface to start things up.</span>

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Such that the greatest number of users configure the fewest number of options                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">a related, but I think slightly different, situation is what <a class="inserted-after" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails" target="_blank">Rails</a> calls "<a class="inserted-after" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration" target="_blank">convention over configuration</a>", i.e. there isn't even a "default" they just eliminate the choice entirely by saying "your html must be stored in a folder called html"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(I don't know if that specific choice is in rails, but it's the kind of choice they're talking about)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">from the rails' designer perspective, nothing is gained and something is lost by allowing you to put your html in a folder called my_awesome_stuff</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:13 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">oh man, that is a whole angle that could maybe be a fishbowl on its own</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">but definitely related here</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well that's just removing configurability</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">wanting to do that is pathological</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I'm talking about the case where you do have configurability as a base assumption</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Obviously overall the less configurability that you have or need is better</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">well my point is that most frameworks do have that configurability, and rails actively removed it</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">it was an act to remove it, it wasn't default</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(again I emphasize I don't know if that specific thing is in rails, I'm just giving a hypothetical)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">actually, as a result of this conversation, I'm now thinking my issues with Rails are for issues that aren't really related to "convention over configuration"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and more just to a design I don't like</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think as a software designer any time you are tempted to add configurability you should give it a trial by fire</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">The burden of proof is on the necessity for configurability</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:16 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">DHH has a relevant essay on this, "Rails is Omakase" <a href="https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html" target="_blank">https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html</a></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">my paraphrase/summary: "You've come to me to give you a framework to make web applications. I'm telling you, there is no good reason not to put these files in a folder called html. So I'm just not even giving you the option."</span>

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The burden of proof is on the necessity for configurability                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">This is why I think that you should be seeing what existing users are trying to do that they can't, rather than designing things up front to try and support what they might want to do</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well and better yet just provide the ability to do that thing out of the box</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Not as an option</span>

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Well and better yet just provide the ability to do that thing out of the box                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">In the context of something that might require configuration, it might not be the best idea to always provide it out of the box, actually. Something like the theoretical startup interface for choosing which programs to start requires configuration (each user wants to start different programs, probably), and it could work out of the box, but if I'm the only user who ever uses it then it was probably a waste of time for them to design it.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Ideally you'd want to have some kind of assurance during development that testers tend to actually want to do that thing</span>

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my paraphrase/summary: "You've come to me to give you a framework to make web applications. I'm telling you, there is no good reason not to put these files in a folder called html. So I'm just not even giving you the option."                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">There is a tyranny of choice aspect related to the nerdsniping</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Where the more options there are, the more some people will agonize over what the "right" options to use might be</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Or worse configuration might even be "expected"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Where nobody uses the out-of-the-box settings</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(And of course in the unfortunately common degenerate case the software doesn't even work without configuration)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">A quick example would be Windows installers</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Because there are actual tradeoffs to where you store the program, owing to Windows not having a model for what installation looks like</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Whereas you could remove 100% of installer-config for almost all programs</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Toward an app-store like installation process - click install, progress bar, done</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And, it's worth noting, for a lot of people I know with average/below average technical literacy installers are a huge point of confusion and frustration</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">a subject for another day, but installation is generally a terrible concept and should be avoided as much as possible</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">it overlaps with configuration a bit</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Ironically it's the power user who understands that you should usually just click next a bunch of times and only pause to disable diagnostics, tracking, mailing lists, etc</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">For the average user they feel like they might be screwing up something important</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Why would they be presented with the option if it didn't matter?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:26 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Installation location does matter a whole lot more when you have more than one disk drive, and have to manage space. I personally have to choose a new install location for most new programs, because the default is on my SSD, which doesn't have a lot more storage space (and I'd like that storage space to be reserved for a few things that I want to run fast)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">However nobody presents that in a clean way like it could be. The end user could just see a list of drives/partitions/whatever and how much space they have, then choose one and be done, if the operating system was designed that way</span>

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Installation location does matter a whole lot more when you have more than one disk drive, and have to manage space. I personally have to choose a new install location for most new programs, because the default is on my SSD, which doesn't have a lot more storage space (and I'd like that storage space to be reserved for a few things that I want to run fast)                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">this wouldnt matter if most program installations are tiny like remedybg, single exe</span>

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this wouldnt matter if most program installations are tiny like remedybg, single exe                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I don't expect most of my games to be that tiny, to be honest. Games are big, especially ones with lots of art assets.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Better yet default install would go to a globally configured drive</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If you want different you'd right-click and select a different install drive</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Double click would still install without config</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">better yet you don't install it :P</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(this is the macos .app model)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I mean, not really, though</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I mean, for some value of "install" but there is an expected application directory, etc</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If you just mean the lack of registry configuration then yes burn it with fire</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">let me clarify that .app is not related to the app store</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">.app is a bundle format for all of the files that are required to run an application</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">to the user it appears as a single file, just like an image or a word doc etc.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">it overlaps with the configuration discussion because it eliminates the concept of installation choices</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Right and you can put it somewhere else if you want</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:32 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">wasnt there a finder for cl</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">cuz they messed up locations so badly</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Jon Blow wrote like a 1000loc C++ program for finding the installation directories</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think I agree with demitri, if you just download a file and it's just a file you can execute and run, that is way better for the user than an installation.</span>

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I think I agree with demitri, if you just download a file and it's just a file you can execute and run, that is way better for the user than an installation.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">further examples of eliminating configuration through smarter design, yeah</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><span class="chatlog__markdown-mention" title="Skytrias#8787">@Skytrias (Michael)</span> <a href="https://gist.github.com/andrewrk/ffb272748448174e6cdb4958dae9f3d8" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/andrewrk/ffb272748448174e6cdb4958dae9f3d8</a></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">My bad it's like 500</span>

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I think I agree with demitri, if you just download a file and it's just a file you can execute and run, that is way better for the user than an installation.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well part of the thing here is that it is still actually a directory with multiple files but it's presented to the user as the least-complex possible thing</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Because almost no user cares about anything that's inside the folder</span>

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Because almost no user cares about anything that's inside the folder                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Right, you can go into it and access, say, saved games, which is very useful. But the fact that it's bundled together with the executable means everything just works wherever you put it, and you don't need any up front configuration</span>

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Because almost no user cares about anything that's inside the folder                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">indeed the default desktop operations don't even let you treat it like a folder</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:34 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">so the topic we seem to keep coming around to is that design is really critical: it helps you avoid configuration entirely, ensure that what configuration you have is useful, and ensure that your default configuration is a good user experience</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">so one concrete piece of advice I'd like to propose, then, is to design your software without configuration first, and to then introduce configuration (or options) at a later date</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:36 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">sound reasonable? caveats?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Any technical cost to adding configuration later pales in comparison to the costs of adding design later</span>

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                                    <span class="chatlog__reference-link" onclick="scrollToMessage(event, '820394743824908305')">
so one concrete piece of advice I'd like to propose, then, is to design your software without configuration first, and to then introduce configuration (or options) at a later date                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:36 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">thats interesting, i already have optional features for my program, should i not have them and force them, only implement them once users rage / want them?</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yeah. Introduce configuration as it's needed, rather than to give people more options up front</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Do keep in mind that there's a distinction between configurations and options (see demitri's post at the beginning)</span>

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thats interesting, i already have optional features for my program, should i not have them and force them, only implement them once users rage / want them?                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think it's highly likely that those choices might be irrelevant to your users, and that by failing to make that decision yourself you have locked yourself out of interesting further designs</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">a lot of useful features will need to be based on assumptions about how other parts of the system work</span>

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                                    <span class="chatlog__reference-link" onclick="scrollToMessage(event, '820394743824908305')">
so one concrete piece of advice I'd like to propose, then, is to design your software without configuration first, and to then introduce configuration (or options) at a later date                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think this is a good aspirational goal, I wonder if there are practical limitations. For example, if I make a web server I guess I can default to port 80, no TLS cert, etc., and then maybe the next level is I have server_config folder in which I look for a cert file etc.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">though web servers could plausibly accept all that stuff as command-line arguments</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">as they are important operational inputs</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Web servers continue to be a confounding case for this terminology</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Input method aside, as you said earlier, they are important inputs <em>somehow</em>. But, there's a spectrum of essential to optional, and a lot of webserver stuff is more and more optional.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Like you definitely need to bind to an address and a port, and you can choose whatever input method will best serve your users</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Ok, but choosing what address and port something will live on is a decision a user will have to make.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Well the web is built on ridiculous layers of complexity and with configuration-first as a baselines assumption</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">It's basically the worst imaginable degenerate case of everything we're talking about here</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So it's not like you're operating from a clean slate</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">You have to interface with a bunch of configurability imposed on you by the environment</span>

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Like you definitely need to bind to an address and a port, and you can choose whatever input method will best serve your users                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah, and that stuff can be pushed toward "options" part of the spectrum with just a little bit of design</span>

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yeah, and that stuff can be pushed toward "options" part of the spectrum with just a little bit of design                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Right, there are any number of ways you could do this (config file, GUI, web dashboard served on a random private port, command-line flags, environment variables, etc. etc.)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Or any number of future options. But per your terminology it's hardly even "config".</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I mean, with this terminology, I feel like "optional config" is redundant. If it's not optional, it's not config.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Maybe it's still a crappy input channel but we can exclude it from this level of design discussion.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Very much disagree</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">One category of configuration that I particularly despise is first-launch configuration</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Where to even start using an application you're first forced to make a bunch of decisions related to the config</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Where, for one, you don't even know what the tradeoffs are yet because you haven't used it</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">one thing i wanted to ask, should you force users to use configuration via ui, or should configuration via text always be possible?</span>

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one thing i wanted to ask, should you force users to use configuration via ui, or should configuration via text always be possible?                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">anywhere you want reproducibility/automation I think a text artifact is a desirable option</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">also for sharing options</span>

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Where, for one, you don't even know what the tradeoffs are yet because you haven't used it                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I agree, you should never be unable to run the program without configuration at all. Ideally, the few choices that you have to make (language, location on file system) should be inherited from/chosen by something like the operating system, which should have the only necessary things to configure already figured out.</span>

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I agree, you should never be unable to run the program without configuration at all. Ideally, the few choices that you have to make (language, location on file system) should be inherited from/chosen by something like the operating system, which should have the only necessary things to configure already figured out.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I'm not sure how feasible this is, but in most cases the configuration can be limited to a very limited set of things, that you already made the decision about on the overarching system</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">It's totally reasonable I think to be required to provide data on launch as long as there is context for it, and regardless of whether you consider it "config" I think it's less interesting for the purposes of this discussion</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If a program needs user data to run, it needs to get it at some point, and maybe the best time to ask for it is on first launch, or maybe it isn't. But I think a lot of the type of configuration we're talking about here is optional data provided beyond the minimum required.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah, so one principle is "is it possible to set a default that works most of the time, and is not harmful in the cases where it's wrong?"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I'm curious about what kinds of user data would be needed to run, because it seems like to me, most things that you'd need (keyboard layout, language) can or should be able to be detected rather than asked for.</span>

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I'm curious about what kinds of user data would be needed to run, because it seems like to me, most things that you'd need (keyboard layout, language) can or should be able to be detected rather than asked for.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Depends on the app, e.g. a rideshare app may need location permissions, user profile data for drivers, and payment info</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">maybe some of that can be deferred, maybe not</span>

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yeah, so one principle is "is it possible to set a default that works most of the time, and is not harmful in the cases where it's wrong?"                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I like this question, and I think it can be fairly applied to practically any "config decision" a programmer might make.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And I would guess that by thinking through that decision, you will discover some important stuff about your software and the problem you're solving.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:56 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">similarly, "Hypothetically, if it were impossible to collect this information, what would I do?" (this gives a path to eliminating the input entirely)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">so for example "Hypothetically, my user refuses to tell me what folder will contain the html files. OK fine user, then I will insist that all html must come from the folder /html"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and then you discover that this was a better design than asking the user to begin with</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:57 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">To revisit some previous points, aesthetic editor decisions clearly can have a good default, keymappings could have useful defaults, even program installation locations could have reasonable defaults depending on the underlying system. But perhaps for something like a webserver, some form of address is both difficult (or impossible) to choose a value for, and harmful if it's wrong.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">oh I really like that as well, keep 'em coming <img loading="lazy" class="chatlog__emoji " alt="😛" title="stuck_out_tongue" src="files\twemoji_1f61b.svg"></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 12:58 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and you can then ask the initial question of "is it harmful in any way to choose this on behalf of the user?"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:00 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">To extend that example, you may then at some point find that for some users it is a legitimate pain point to have everything in the <span class="chatlog__markdown-pre chatlog__markdown-pre--inline">/html</span> folder, and at that point perhaps you could introduce an option. But it still isn't harmful to choose <span class="chatlog__markdown-pre chatlog__markdown-pre--inline">/html</span> on the user's behalf, initially.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:00 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">going on your webserver example, maybe it's useful to specifically call out inputs where you expect the potential for adversarial action (e.g. web server addresses/ports)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">so if you knew no one was trying to exploit you, you could just go ahead and take port 80 (or some similar network resource)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">but maybe you have to account for the fact that adversaries might be looking for default-configured software</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:02 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah, and actually, I think that because it's potentially harmful you have a good reason to ask the user, and a good opportunity then to help the user make an informed decision</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:03 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">right so let me throw in an additional tool similar to defaults but not quite defaults, which is runtime/first-time interrogation</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:03 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">the thing <span class="chatlog__markdown-mention" title=".bmp#5134">@.bmp</span> hates <img loading="lazy" class="chatlog__emoji " alt="😛" title="stuck_out_tongue" src="files\twemoji_1f61b.svg"></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:03 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><div class="chatlog__markdown-pre chatlog__markdown-pre--multiline nohighlight">./run_server
... can't find previous run-log, assuming first-run
... will use port 80, ok? [y/n] 
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">no I mean something different from what brendan means</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">something interpolating anyway</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:04 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Right, where it's just like "we're going to do xyz, is that cool?"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">ah, I see</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">so you're 1) calling out the defaults, 2) asking for explicit permission</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and if the user says no you then give a helpful message <div class="chatlog__markdown-pre chatlog__markdown-pre--multiline nohighlight">... will use port 80, ok? [y/n] 
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah, and this still allows a design intent to be communicated</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">this doesn't excuse you from design in any way</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">something it would need afterwards would be <span class="chatlog__markdown-pre chatlog__markdown-pre--inline">you can configure this afterwards in file.xy</span></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:05 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I would still much prefer just not asking</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And if you want something else, you do something else</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">sure, but we're talking about the situations where you have to ask</span>

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And if you want something else, you do something else                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">this has to be traded against security risks</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If it can't be changed after first-time setup, just have two first-time setup paths</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve"><em>One</em> prompt, for example that says "Just use all default settings y/n"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And if you select no, it has further prompts</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If you select yes, you're done</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:08 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">that's possibly fine but the user might not know that "all default settings" includes things with security impacts</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:09 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">if i store an ip in a config file, i should probably try to encrypt / hide it?</span>

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that's possibly fine but the user might not know that "all default settings" includes things with security impacts                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Then they shouldn't be setting up something with security implications</span>

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Then they shouldn't be setting up something with security implications                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">ok but they might not know that :P</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Whether they should or shouldn't, people probably will. This is the web</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:11 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">certainly when I started out I didn't know that people were scanning ips for default-configured servers to exploit</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I mean in your example someone who doesn't know there are security implications to setting up a web server isn't going to know which port to use for security reasons</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:11 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">But this is an opportunity to communicate this to them, instead of just saying "well, screw it, you don't know better"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Right so just say "note: first-time settings have security implications, please only use default configuration if you are certain you are comfortable with that" or whatever</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:13 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yeah, this raises a separate topic about configuration which is that it is often plagued by documentation/communication problems</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:13 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Anyway again we're talking about poweruser stuff</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Which is not the general design case</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:13 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I can't count the times I discovered some config option from reading someone else's code, that wasn't documented in the official docs</span>

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                    <div class="chatlog__short-timestamp" title="13-Mar-21 01:14 PM">13:14</div>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">"oh there's a <span class="chatlog__markdown-pre chatlog__markdown-pre--inline">DONT_LAUNCH_NUKES</span> option, very cool I wish I had known that last week"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:14 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yes, and that's an issue that I think needs to be addressed no matter what you choose to make configuration or not</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">it's actually a good case too for something more toward "options"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yeah it's a problem even in consumer-tier software where options are just not explained</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">You have a label on a radio box and the label is highly ambiguous or whatever</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And you're like "what the fuck does this mean"</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And there's no way to find out</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Again another problem with programmer-as-designer</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Or even potentially designer-as-designer</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">The person who is setting up the configuration interface has knowledge bias</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">They're already very familiar with the settings, the tradeoffs, etc</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If they're not a good communicator, don't have a good model of their audience, don't have a good model of how their own knowledge interacts with the interface, they won't communicate the options properly</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Eventually I think it does all come back to thinking about your users and trying to reduce costs for them</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and I think we've clearly established from this conversation that the benefits of configuration are overestimated and the costs hardly estimated at all</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and by asking some critical questions about your design, you can design significantly better software for your users</span>

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And you're like "what the fuck does this mean"                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">how would you avoid this though, i know some programs display videos what the change would do</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:19 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Even just a one-sentence blurb would often do the trick</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Or a better-worded label</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yea i have that already, still sometimes feels abstract</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:19 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">re: reducing costs — paraphrasing something jon blow has said several times, if you have 1000 users and you waste 5 minutes of time for each of them that's 5000 minutes or <em>two full work weeks</em></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Part of the problem can also be the programmer/designer not having a very solid concept of what the option does themselves</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">They understand what it does intuitively but it's just outside their ability to solidify the concept into clear and concise terminology</span>

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Part of the problem can also be the programmer/designer not having a very solid concept of what the option does themselves                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yes, which is a good reason to design it without config first</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Often because the things that software does <em>are</em> abstract or difficult to find words for</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(Hence the shitstorm of overlapping/bad terminology in the software world)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Another thing that can be useful here is <em>demonstrating the change</em></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So like, having a little animation that shows before/after</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If the setting is visually communicable</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:23 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Hence the word "if" <img loading="lazy" class="chatlog__emoji " alt="😛" title="stuck_out_tongue" src="files\twemoji_1f61b.svg"></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I've seen this done particularly in smartphone apps and it usually works out pretty well</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">would be doable for some options sure</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">but yea i think options are bad for programmers too, another source for bugs to occur, especially if you dont use a specific option and it might bug out unknowingly</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I'd like to make the point again that options themselves aren't bad. The issues that Demitri mentioned that make them more of configurations than options make them harder to work with though, such as if they're not changed often or the changes are hard to detect in the output</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:29 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Since we're now about 2.5 hours in, and I'm thinking it's nearly time to wrap this up, I wanted to just quickly highlight some of the stuff we covered in this conversation:
- We established some vocabulary for talking about configuration
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">This conversation can always continue outside this fishbowl as well. I'm sure we'll all be dealing with these design questions all the time going forward.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">that all sounds good to me, I'll just wrap up my portion by reiterating viewing configuration as a cost that should pay itself back ... or to put it in a more positive light, as an attempt at an <em>investment</em></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">so when you do it, you should have an idea of what it is you are buying for your users and for yourself</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:32 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">maybe also <span class="chatlog__markdown-pre chatlog__markdown-pre--inline">when you store options in a file, it should be a readable format</span></span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:33 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">that seems like an awfully granular and specific takeaway</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">true haha</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:33 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think another thing we established through this convo is also that configuration can take many forms</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">and those forms can continue to impact the cost your users are asked to bear</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:34 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I think a pervasive problem in this discussion has been returning to things like config files and text editors etc</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">If you have a config file (that you expect users to interact with) for consumer software you have failed</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:34 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">over configuration can also be a pain - every website forcing you to fill out cookie permissions</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I really, really, really do not want anyone to come away from this discussion thinking this somehow only applies to programmer tools. This applies to everything.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:35 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Programmer tools are familiar to us all, and frequently <em>terrible</em> examples of design. But they are the tip of the iceberg here.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Even if your users are programmers and <em>like</em> configuration, you would do them all a favor by directing their attention to what matters.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">It applies <em>especially</em> to everything</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:35 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Programmers are the only audience in which some members are okay with or even like configuration</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">So if your model of what a user wants is based on programmer things, you're sorely falling short of the mark and vastly underestimating how much the ordinary user despises, and is frustrated/intimidated by any and all configuration beyond "turn notifications on/off" "light theme/dark theme" etc</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Making actual design decisions instead of saying "I don't know, make it a config option" can be very valuable. You'll understand what the tradeoffs are once you have an actual use case for the other config option, and you can decide if the benefits are worth the cost you pay.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">On that note there was one other point I wanted to get in related to forcing first-time configuration, which is just how smooth and well-designed the experience feels when a new application drops you right in with no config or introduction and makes good default assumptions and good use of system-wide settings</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">When you open a new app and it's already dark theme because your phone is dark theme for example</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">The lack of a hard barrier between "I don't have this app" and "I'm a comfortable user of this app" is hard to overstate in terms of getting users to <em>like</em> your software</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">And that barrier is where a lot of people will close the app and never open it again</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">(Or just never have it set up the way they want, despite there being settings for it, and always having a low-grade frustration with the experience)</span>

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Making actual design decisions instead of saying "I don't know, make it a config option" can be very valuable. You'll understand what the tradeoffs are once you have an actual use case for the other config option, and you can decide if the benefits are worth the cost you pay.                                    </span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yes along these lines it's worth noting that nobody understands the tradeoffs better than the designer (or at least, if that's not the case, you have a problem)</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">There may come a time when your advanced users have a better model of some parts of the problem space than you do, but it's important to remember that they are not the common use case and therefore their experiences/opinions are not necessarily reflective of average users</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:46 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">i'm gonna call it a day personally, been getting sleepy faster than i thought</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:46 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yep, I think we have nicely reached the end here</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:47 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I'd like to thank <span class="chatlog__markdown-mention" title="demetrispanos#5588">@demetrispanos</span> for this fishbowl idea</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:47 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">yea was interesting, definitely helped me out a lot</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:47 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Yes, absolutely. I'm very glad to have done a fishbowl prompted organically by the conversations we were having around here!</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:47 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">I'm glad other people share some of my sentiments on this subject!</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__timestamp">Mar 13, 2021 01:48 PM</span>
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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">Thanks all for participating! I found this super enlightening and interesting, and I hope you all did as well.</span>

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                        <span class="chatlog__markdown-preserve">As always, you can check the pinned messages to read the whole conversation from the beginning. See you at the next fishbowl!</span>

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