We’re applauding now? Or maybe waving?

Shawn MacDonald
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

You step away from your laptop for ten minutes and you come back and the heart is gone and now there’s a hand instead. I think it’s clapping, but maybe it’s waving. Okay…scroll down and it says that we’re clapping. Got it.

And there is some sort of animation there, but it’s a mouseover animation, not a click animation. Then you click the hand just to see what it does, okay, the hand changes to solid. But not on every article. And if you want to unclick an article, you end up clapping more. So instead of unliking something you didn’t mean to like, you are SUPER liking it.

Well, if you’re going to move away from something as universal as the heart/like, at least it comes with no real notification or explanation.

Shawn MacDonald

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Graphic artist. Writer. Vinyl-only DJ. Bicyclist. My best friend is a 2-year old Aussie/lab named Daisy. We live in the middle of the Mitten.