When somebody subscribes on something, this message is probably a little bit too verbose:
Person added a subscriber: Person
Similar action:
Person removed a subscriber: Person
This is not optimal because:
- no human in the world talks like that (at least no human proficient with social habits)
- Phorge is clearly our unique friend here, and so it should not try to highlight that it's an artificial friendship.
- pompous phrases does not help in professional focus
- imagine a world where you can switch off 0.01% of your brain to read a sentence, and preserve that energy to focus on software development. Wow!
- wall of texts tends to be skipped, but skipping info should not be encouraged
- try to subscribe 69 times. Now destroy a random production server with rm --recursive --force / and unsubscribe again 420 times. I bet that your wall of text would be so intense that any related nuclear damage will be not noticed. Eheh!
Proposed solution
Proposed text difference:
-Person added a subscriber: Person. +Person subscribed
-Person removed a subscriber: Person. +Person unsubscribed
Proposed visual difference:
Before | After |
Note that the involved person is always a link, and that the link is always in bold, and very prominent.
So this also reduces a bit the visual impact of unuseful stuff and requires less lines on mobile.
It also requires less markup, so less page loading, by at least a billionth of a second. Also, it saves server CPU cycles, and also it saves network packets.
Doing math, after this change, I wouldn't be surprised if all Phorge instances could save a single dolphin every 6 years.