People continue to be surprised that clicking "delete account" and typing "DELETE" deletes their account. Am i bad at design?

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People are just kind of retarded. It will never be simple enough for them.

What do they think would happen if they did that?

Maybe an ask of how sure they are…? you know, like breaking up…

wtf ?!?!

Seems straight forward to me

Did people mistakenly delete their accounts despite having a second warning prompt?

Wait, testing šŸ’œšŸ‘€

I would call this "working as intended."

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Deletes the private key? Or remotes the key from the device?

It’s a trap!

Since we’re talking about Nostr, what exactly does ā€œdeleteā€ do? AFAIK there wasn’t an official spec for asking relays to delete content.

NIP-143

You could add "permanently", but they won't read it either. šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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I think people are shocked at how easy it is compared to the tests you take from traditional platforms when deleting.

Not really. It’s actually good.

Please also note somewhere that ā€žDELETE is not just a LOGOUT - it’s forever Laura!ā€œ

People learn a lot through pain. Ask every child it’s stove story.

If you need help with design, pm me. But I think you are fine :) from what I see.

Nah man you’re good.

No, let’s ask them to enter their entire nsec key before they delete their account

Final step should be shouting ā€˜delete’ out on street between hours of 06:00 / 06:30

🤣i certify u crazy, name of father, son and spiritu sanctusšŸ™

Well they're used to things like Facebook which take weeks or even months to actually delete anything.

One UI compromise could be to require people to enter in their seed (or part of their seed) for delete to work.

Should have been DELETEFOREVERTHISISPERMANENTANDCANTBEUNDONE

You forgot the prompt : ā€are you sure you want to delete your account? Because this will fucking delete your accountā€

Buttons ā€œfucking nuke itā€ - ā€œabort missionā€

Maybe you should insist by a third step ā€œAre you very sure you want to delete? This is not a jokeā€ click ā€œLoLā€ to exit, ā€œOkā€ to really delete :)

Zap 1 sat to delete šŸ˜†

Hang on let me test

The problem for me was my profile was slow to load and kept seemingly loading old data from another priv key so I thought I was deleting that account but it deleted my main.

Purposeful delete of the wrong account

This is why ā€œcaution: hot liquidsā€ warnings on coffee cups is a thing and people still act surprised when they get burned. Silly rabbit

Maybe the sentiment is: I deleted and typed DELETE but I didn’t want to delete my account(nobody wants). So maybe delete is not even shown, or light gray.

Haven’t tested that yet

Highly consistent design : if you can't delete a note, it follows that you can't undelete a deleted account ;-)

I absolutely thought this meant remove account from the app. It could definitely be more clear.

Because is not that?

What else can do?

I think that "Logout" is more semantically correct and follow the usual UX.

Having said that, a note "save your private key or you are fucked" could help.

Its so fun to play with this

So didnt get the time to press Delete

just do it as you can šŸ‘

hh it is a clear step #[0]

šŸ˜‚ what do they expect. DELETE ACCOUNT!

Actually, I’d expect that ONLY the key is deleted from the device. There are no ā€œaccountsā€ in Nostr.

They all got used to bailouts

Undo's

although this is probably the funnier one: #[3]

Deletes or soft-delete? Usually the record can be marked as archived in database.

šŸ˜‚ i was thinking the same thing. If you delete your account - what did you expect to happen?

WTF? Seems pretty obvious to me. šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø

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What were you thinking?

Not surprising, it's too terse. What does "delete account" mean? Does it just delete the account from the local device? Including text explaining what the ramifications of the action are will likely reduce the retardedness by a substantial amount.

Popular apps are bad at actually deleting. So much that we can’t believe something will be really deleted.

you should fix it.I lost my account for somewhat reason.I am sure I don not delete account.