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Hello !Friendica Support,

is sharing as a quote no longer possible with Friendica? At least I can no longer find the button.

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Friendica 'Yellow Archangel' 2024.03-dev - 1542

#Friendica #bug #QuotedShares #2024-03-dev

in reply to Raroun

@Raroun @Montag
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This thread reminds me to the discussion, whether the unlock screen could be mistaken for the telephone dial screen... or some heated discussions about content warnings.
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in reply to Montag

I can understand why it seems confusing. I guess someone would expect quote mark to quote comment text into reaction instead of sharing it.

Maybe someone here can find better icon for it for better #UX ?

Edit: Thinking about it, wouldn't it be enough to use "share" icon instead of quote marks as you aren't really quoting anything, but sharing whole post (with your commentary)?

#ux

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in reply to Schmaker

Actually, the icon already explains what is behind it. I should have just clicked on all of them and seen what happened.
in reply to Montag

@Montag Well, I'm not #UX expert, but when you have to click/hover on icon to find out what it's doing, then the icon might not be well chosen 😀

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in reply to Montag

@Montag No need to click. Mouse hover will show a tooltip (at least on desktop).
in reply to Schmaker

@Schmaker @Montag he probably got used with the previous one 😁 otherwise idk, it seems self-explanatory to me as well.
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Schmaker

That one would work too, but I guess pretty much any from these could be enough Share icons

2nd and 4th are imho the best fitting as I don't find much difference in "quote share" and "share" for linking someones post

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Schmaker

Somehow I missed that "boost" is actually called "reshare" in Friendica. My bad.

I'd actually like more if (not that it would matter 😀 ):
- reshare was called boost instead
- quote share was called share instead

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in reply to Schmaker

@Schmaker
Nothing is "boosted/angekurbelt" here. It implies an intention to exaggerate something. This is something I would expect from companies that care about the attention economy. Something is happening here that I would describe as pointing to something.

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in reply to Matthias

@Matthias ✔
As I said - I don't think it matters what do I think (I actually thought it's called boost in Friendica too until now 😀 )

To me boost feels more logical as when I share something, then it's me who shares it - not the original poster. When I boost, I give original post new (my) audience - boosting it's viewer count in process
@Montag

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in reply to Schmaker

"boost" is a word that is solely used by Mastodon. I don't appreciate to use their word, but to use more generic words instead.