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
    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