While design is always useful, there's diminishing returns in optimizing usability.<p>I really hope that FFOS can see beyond that trap and commit resources to embracing mesh networking as its USP and killer app-space.<p>Not only would this empower those with sporadic or poor internet connectivity in the developing world, but also take readily abused surveillance and billing power away from centralised carrier communications topologies and fundamentally help to keep society free.<p>Bug on the subject (vote and follow if you agree) <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047</a><p>PDF on the subject <a href="https://bug945047.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8407268" rel="nofollow">https://bug945047.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=84072...</a><p>Sad example of current paradigm that FFOS could fix with mesh support: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117791" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117791</a>
Looks like everyone is jumping on the Material Design train in terms of expressive and intuitive animations.<p>I thought I first saw elements of this in the Windows Phone OS, but Material extended and perfected it, in my opinion.