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It's ironic that a person writing about poor communication paradigms didn't explain what "toast" means here.

It's the most important word on their page, and it's obvious that some people, even technically-minded folks, don't understand the jargon.

But could be they got extra engagement from readers who are interested in baking and breakfast recipes?

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It's just that it's a post made by a web developper for their web developper audience. Safe to assume they know what a Toast Notification is.

I’ve done a lot of web development and never heard the term. I even use them a lot but called them popup notifications or other terms. I’ve used lots of frontend toolkits that call these something else.

Pretty much every well-known UI library, including Bootstrap, Angular Material/MUI & Chakra UI, calls these Toasts.

Interesting... I am a longtime Bootstrap user, and they offer a large number of other things that can be configured for the same purpose- alerts, popovers, modals, etc.

I've never actually noticed the toasts component itself, but have done the same thing with other components. I wonder if the feature was added after I started using bootstrap ~14 years ago, and I mostly just kept using the components I was used to.

Looking at it, I don't see myself using it because of the 'dismiss' button. I don't like things that obscure the UI, or encourage unneeded extra interaction, when I can pass info to the user without doing that.

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