Comment by kzalesak
Comment by kzalesak 6 months ago
I think that the biggest advantage of the spreadsheet is that it can be modified easily, even democratically and also on the go. No website offers that kind of ease of use for _adding_ information
Comment by kzalesak 6 months ago
I think that the biggest advantage of the spreadsheet is that it can be modified easily, even democratically and also on the go. No website offers that kind of ease of use for _adding_ information
Wikipedia is literally a website that does this and has existed for >2 decades at this point.
Learning is the last thing they want to do in a situation like “I want to update a document about losing homes”, and among the end of the to do list in general. One can argue as much as they want how it’s people’s fault, but the next catastrophe will create more google sheets and whatsapp groups and zero wikis and forum threads.
I believe that developers could bridge this gap easily, if they weren’t in the denial about their own UI/UX issues themselves.
Not sure why you feel justified in this level of snarkiness, given that i responded to a very specific claim:
>No website offers that kind of ease of use for _adding_ information
Obviously Wikipedia isn't great to upload your social security number to, but it does allow democratic adding of information which I cited it as an example of.
Please read the HN guidelines. You seem to require a refresher:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Don't be snarky.
Perhaps it was a little snarky - it was intended with good humour to point out how drastically far away the suggestion was.
Wikipedia is nothing like what this is for adding information in the way the comment says. Particularly because one of the very key points about this sheet is that you can copy it and add information. It's explicitly for that and Wikipedia absolutely does not offer the ease of use of filling in forms and adding your information on the go.
You may be right, but it's still an indictment of the web. After all, the first browser was an HTML editor as well as viewer.