Right up there with Slack etcs fake loading messages
"Gearing up the dildonator"
"Implicating the fairies"
"Hogtying George Bush"
Dude - just give me a spinner or a progress bar, and if something errors during the load out give me some sort of stack trace or error ID I can use to help
1. "Nice" is an adjective with nearly zero meaning.
2. Either you have access to my camera outside of calls and are analysing my appearance (WTF) or you're making stuff up.
3. You're making chat software. Stop trying to butter me up.
What's the first instance of joke progress messages? Is it "reticulating splines" from SimCity 2000 (1993)? Difficulty: must be presented to the user as if it were an actual status message during some process that might have real status messages, not as something explicitly fictional—despite occurring in a game, that message in SC2K qualifies.
> Product excellence isn't a point in time. It is a state of mind, it is a way of life.
> So many feature requests, so little time.
Maybe they're being silly? I hope so. But I've also met product managers and designers who seem to think like that. It makes me internally sigh every time I have to use their product.
Once I was at /r/androidapps and someone made a new app, asked for feedback, and «experienced devs» told OP something like «instead of „fetching data“ you should be using „getting everything ready“ because it might scare users to think that app is collecting their data».
Are people really that dumb? I'm afraid to use apps made by those people.
We have to remember the median phone user isn't usually tech savvy. Is an average Joe or Stacy who use that device with communicate with friends and family, use Facebook, watch Netflix, and buy from Amazon, and that isn't something bad. Just we have in mind that most people doesn't know tech-related terms and can confuse them.
Maybe if we want to be a bit funnier we will write "changing the break pads" in the loading screen, but in case of error we have to write something clearer, like "error accessing to the game server" or "error reading cars data files", to being able to solve the problem.
Well discord has fake loading messages too, and I think they're funny. Though it's a bit different since discord is not aimed at professionnals, the geeky jokes match better with the gamer audience
"Gearing up the dildonator"
"Implicating the fairies"
"Hogtying George Bush"
Dude - just give me a spinner or a progress bar, and if something errors during the load out give me some sort of stack trace or error ID I can use to help