@adamgreenfield @jessamyn
Remember when there used to be an "undo" option for everything? I pine for that.
This was the whole theory -- everyone's going to be scared to use the computer if they can't undo freely and with certainty.
I want it back so much, but design-for-undo is an idea that has to reach so deep into our technical stacks that I despair of it.
@adamgreenfield @jessamyn
Right, this is what I mean by it reaching too deep in the stack. We lost undo in part because we gained the internet, and you can't undo a network connection or unsend a packet.
To design for undo would mean designing transactional network protocols plausibly guaranteeing that a remote end can and will undo. And that would be a _very_ different world -- you'd blow up half of HTTP, for instance: There is no web-scale undo.
"Lose the web to gain undo" is not a tradeoff I think we can accept at the moment, although I cannot but ponder it.
@nonnihil
I too, pine for “undo”. 😢
And consistency, across devices, and over time. 💕