>There’s a confirmation box. It’s designed to stop users in a situation like mine from doing something stupid. It tells you that “You will permanently lose all stars and watchers of this repository.” That’s pretty scary.
>The problem is that the box looks exactly the same for repos with no commits and stars and for repos with a decade-long history and 55k stargazers and watchers. And it says “Warning: this is a potentially destructive action.”
>To paraphrase, the box tells you “You’re about to demolish a house. If there are any people inside, they will all die”.
>But it doesn’t include anything specific to break you out of your auto-pilot mode if you’ve confused the address and think you’re looking at an empty house.
just admit that you fucked up and don't look for someone else to blame. people would respect you more for it
They did admit they fucked up. Then they tried to make the best of it by looking for possible ways of preventing other people from repeating their mistake.
What did you want? A blog post that says "I suck, I'm a failure, thanks for reading"? Why is this your response to someone trying to be contructive while post-morteming a failure?
the guy with 10+ experience of using github went to the "danger zone", pressed the red button, saw the very, very, very explicit warning about the consequences of pressing it and confirmed the action by explicitly typing the exact name of the repository.
yes, that blog post would've been apt. as constructive as it gets.
>Why is this your response
because I don't want to send a notarized request every time I need to delete a folder, format a disk or submit a SQL query
This response would get you laughed out of the medical software industry (but welcomed with open arms by CMIOs and hospital administration). Physicians are known to click through all kinds of red-flag warnings because the legal team insisted they all be turned on to maximize patient safety.
Admiring that you screwed up is one thing, but action items coming out of it should prevent somebody else from screwing up in a similar way.
One typical way is to add a confusing confirmation box, where saying yes leaves things as is, but "I want to demolish the house" is in a different location that the typical yes/no buttons
>The problem is that the box looks exactly the same for repos with no commits and stars and for repos with a decade-long history and 55k stargazers and watchers. And it says “Warning: this is a potentially destructive action.”
>To paraphrase, the box tells you “You’re about to demolish a house. If there are any people inside, they will all die”.
>But it doesn’t include anything specific to break you out of your auto-pilot mode if you’ve confused the address and think you’re looking at an empty house.
just admit that you fucked up and don't look for someone else to blame. people would respect you more for it