I heard that votes have been changed to behave closer to how people would expect, and boost is staying here as well. So I had an idea how to bring it all together in the interface.

Sidenote: you don’t have to click the links here, the images are also posted inline in the comments below.

An app (either Artemis or an official one) might use a swipe gesture to visually hint at the relation between upvoting and boosting, as shown in the attached animation. Here’s a static app mockup with both swipe levels displayed. I’d also imagine that there should be a setting that auto-upvotes posts when boosting.

And on the web, it’s probably a good idea to consolidate all the voting buttons into a single block by adding an additional button at the top.

Edit: I’m disappointed in you guys. How come no one noticed the memes? :)

  • curiosityLynx
    27•2 years ago

    imo the boost symbol should be replaced by something like the retweet symbol or the symbol tumblr uses for their reblogging. That would make it clearer what it does. I’d also rename “boost” to something like “echo”.

    • fearoutOP
      6•2 years ago

      That in turn kinda hides the part where it actually boosts the post. Idk, but I feel like it’s a separate entity, not simply a retweet.

      • curiosityLynx
        1•2 years ago

        What about “spread”? Also, the “upvote” side effect of boosting is just that: a secondary side effect.

        • VerifiablyMrWonka
          11•2 years ago

          Secondary? The boosting of a post is secondary to the… boosting?

          I’d be down with the use of a reblog/retweet icon. It’s ubiquitous enough that a majority of people would understand it.

          EDIT. Parent was edited. I agree the upvote is the “side effect”.

          • fearoutOP
            4•2 years ago

            Probably some frankenicon merging retweet with a flying upvote might work.

          • static
            3•2 years ago

            Yes, the double upvote is secundary to the retweet.

            The retweet is understood by the fediverse, for example mastodon. The double upvote only happens in kbin

        • static
          1•2 years ago

          Maybe even remove the scoring from boost, It just makes things so complicated that a retweet has a side-effect