Does this need to change in ALL places? How do you know? How can you get all places it is used and be certain it has to change in all of them?
These seem like questions that are equally important and hard to answer regardless of whether you’re using abstractions, although abstractions have a big advantage in that you can find all the sites where they’re used much more easily than you can find all the places where a piece of code is duplicated (or worse yet, duplicated with slight changes).
Another really clunky thing I noticed right away is that there’s a huge difference between viewing a sub through your home instance vs its home instance, in that you’re no longer logged in when using the remote instance’s URL, and there’s no obvious way to get back to the corresponding location on your home instance. This means, for example, that when someone posts a link to another thread, it’s always kind of broken for remote users.
I feel like something could be done to ease interoperability using the same techniques ad trackers use.
I’m especially baffled as to why the UI had a dedicated button to view content on its home instance. I can see how that might be useful in some circumstances and it would make sense to have it hidden in a menu, but I think it’s just a confusing distraction for new users who typically have no use for a crippled view of what they’re already looking at.
I like the idea of it, but it’s janky as hell. For example, when I tried to post a comment here using the mobile page without choosing a language, the UI just sat there spinning forever without telling me what I did wrong. It wasn’t until I tried using Jerboa that I got a message saying what I did wrong. It also appears I need to manually set the language in each post!
Isn’t that more like a LAN of things?
I had the same thing happen to me this morning also. Very confusing as a new user.