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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

Of course, after than, whatever you've just plugged into it, will most likely not work

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The solution is probably somewhere deep in the bowels of whatever you're trying to make work

It will look obvious once you've figured out, that's why it wasn't mentioned next to the bunch of instruction you pasted into your console to install the thing

Just another day walking in the forest of papercuts

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[-] haych@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

I disagree, the majority of times I see an input field and the is grey text or numbers it's an example and wants filling in. I went in to NPM with zero knowledge of the software and figured it out instantly, so I'd say it is intuitive.

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm coming from the perspective of administrative interfaces, not generic forms. See my other reply for the examples that I use daily that made me have a different "intuition" here. Edit: But the fact that I got three replies in like a few minutes also shows that my perspective might not be the universal one. Still, I think it does hold up in the context of administrative interfaces (which is what NPM is).

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