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foo42yesterday at 7:00 AM2 repliesview on HN

you can get the same issue with icons too. The one that gives me anxiety is the microphone with a line through on a button. I _am_ muted or I should click to _mute_. If my kids are arguing in the background and it's an important call it can feel like a high stakes thing to get wrong and often times it only becomes clear what state I'm in by toggling a few times. Does the icon change to a mic without a line when I click or does the previously shown mic with a line now get coloured in, what does _that_ mean?


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SpaceNoodledyesterday at 8:15 AM

And even WORSE are the services that use different variations on those depending on the platform you're using! Yes, I am looking directly at you, Amazon Chime.

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IggleSniggletoday at 2:30 AM

Surely this one is near universal. At the very least a clarifying tooltip of the verb would be helpful!