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jvreelandtoday at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

I hate nothing more than when a random mistype on a website or app causing shit i don’t understand to happen without reasonable ways to undo it or discover it. I don’t really care if the app can be controlled with a keyboard i want the ui to be discverable and usefull.


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ckardaristoday at 5:47 PM

This can happen if the applications exposes single keys as shortcuts. If they are "hidden" behind the different modifiers (i.e. Ctrl, Cmd, Alt), then mis-clicks should not be possible or should be more tolerated.

The "intuitiveness" argument is also related. You cannot rebind well-known shortcuts to different actions and expect the user to not get frustrated.