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Comment by matharmin | Hacker News Reader

Is this really an issue for anyone? This seems like a whole lot of complaining over functionality that actually works fairly well in my opinion.

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Yes, it's real. And the lag often causes me to accidentally share to the wrong place == really bad.

Same here. Interface elements still shifting around after a second is very bad UX.

Ohyes, and this happens all over the web (looking at you Twitter) and even in the browsers themselves, Firefox is the only browser whose results in the address bar that doesn't jump around. Chrome and Safari are literally unusable for me because of this.

On my phone the share menu is very fast, but every time I open it, the icons are all over the place...

I like to watch YouTube on Kodi, there's an Android app which can be used as a remote control, and load URLs into the playlist. In binge mode I see the related videos and think "Oh that also looks interesting", so I "share" a lot of videos within a few seconds. Video 1, hit share, look for the remote control app icon, press it, done. Second video, hit share, hunt for the icon because it has moved... Same thing every time! Luckily my phone is quick enough that the share menu doesn't take forever to load, and I've accepted that the icons move around, only quietly swearing "Stupid programmers" every time, but it's still stupid.

Agreed, it's one of those things I've never really given a second thought to as it's so frictionless. I think there's always room for improvement though and there are some good suggestions in here.

Not only have I shared to the wrong app on multiple occasions, the direct sharing is useless. I mostly use one app for IMs, but the direct share is always populated by another app.

But this is also not only Google's issue. If you direct share to a contact in Messenger, instead of just sharing whatever you wanted to, Messenger opens the share interface where you can select other people to share to. This is even though you wanted to share to just one.

I use share every day. It sucks.

On Samsung TouchWiz it is BRUTAL, one of the worst UI designs I've ever encountered.

to me it's

1) quite suboptimal

2) becomes bloated with time

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