nextcloud / nextcloud/firstrunwizard
Dark UX pattern: Don't coerce users to share on social media on new version splash screen
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 54
- Forks
- 59
- Avg merge
- 4h 47m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 27
Description
At least after the update to Nextcloud 33 and 34, a user is shown a splash screen which is then followed by a modal dialogue that lists new features of that release and has "Share on social media" as the primary (and only clearly visible) action. The option that likely 99,99% of users will want to chose is hidden on the top right corner.
IMO this is a dark UX pattern and makes Nextcloud appear deceptive and less trustworthy.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the splash-screen and new-features modal implementation in the repository and compare it with the reported behavior; done means sharing is no longer the primary action and the ordinary way to continue or dismiss the modal is clearly visible.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100