didn't this just use to be a right arrow or a square with a right arrow back when forwarding was an experiment - ThreadSky

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lucia.red • 66 days ago

didn't this just use to be a right arrow or a square with a right arrow back when forwarding was an experiment

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it was a chat bubble with a right arrow on it (meant to be a "jump to message" icon but not used for that yet)

turns out changing the forwarding icon to the reversed reply icon increased forwarding use a lot, presumably because this is the icon that every other platform uses for forwarding

retr0.id•63 days ago

are you sure people (me) aren't just clicking it accidentally because it looks like a reply button

advaith.bsky.social•63 days ago

yeah of course accidental clicks were a theory, but the increase was on actual forwards not just clicks on the button

mary.my.id•63 days ago

cant it be two arrows at least i get really confused if the distinction is just whether the arrow points to the left or right

advaith.bsky.social•63 days ago

that icon was considered too but I think people didn't like it

x2f.dev•62 days ago

im sorry but for anyone like the current icons lol? or was the ”people like them” metric more people clicking on it. cause i certainly click the current one a lot accidentally 🥲

wukko.me•63 days ago

this icon confuses me more ngl

lucia.red•66 days ago

square with right arrow seems like the most intuitive one to me because it's similar to the square with up arrow, which is the iOS share icon and is understood by a lot of people

forwarding a message is a form of sharing it so having an icon that resembles share makes sense

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