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[–] Solemarc 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I think I understand this;

cancel -> submit the POST request and cancel -> undo this thing. maybe they shoulda just used submit & cancel or cancel & exit instead.

[–] breadsmasher 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Should be Cancel or Cancel Cancel

/s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

submit cancel or cancel submit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Proceed”, “Go Back”

[–] victorz 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Lessgooo", "I have regrets"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

"YOLO", "Whoa"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

To anyone who is interested in a better design: Buttons should be labeled with verb+object combinations, for instance “Cancel subscription”. Also it’s better to use less generic words that apply to the task at hand, for instance “Terminate subscription”. Here, ‘cancel’ is the right word, so this hint doesn’t apply as well here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I think termínate is a better term. I don’t think it would be used because some UX person would worry about associations with robot assassins and people being fired, but terminating the subscription is the best technical term.

Canceling is preventing some future thing from happening. At best, you are cancelling a scheduled auto-renewal. But to end an ongoing thing is to terminate.

[–] marcos 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

[Confirm Cancellation] [Cancel Confirmation]

(Or maybe on the other order, I dunno.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I would, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

abort();

Also looks like average twitter. Always cancels.