MalloyDelacroix / DownloaderForReddit

The Downloader for Reddit is a GUI application with some advanced features to extract and download submitted content from reddit.
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There are no user lists available #62

Closed thany closed 5 years ago

thany commented 5 years ago

Getting this error when trying to add a subreddit:

There are no user lists available. To add a user, please add a user list

Okay. I don't want to add a user. But if I must add a user list (what is that anyway?) so I shall. Now to figure out how to add this user list...

Some time passes.

Got it. I think.

Try again. Same error message. Maybe it wants me to add a user? At least that works. I don't understand why it's a + button, and not just a button that says "Add user", but oh well. Someone didn't read up on UX design. That's fine.

Anyway, back to adding subreddits.

Same error. Or warning actually, but even a warning is blocking me so I guess it's meant as an error.

Now what?...

MalloyDelacroix commented 5 years ago

That error message is the same message used for both user and subreddit lists. I see that I do need to switch the nouns when the error originates from the subreddit list though. Sorry for the inconvenience.

As for your problem with the UI design: large buttons with words take up more UI real estate than small tool buttons, and this is designed to be a small window app. I didn't imagine this would be a problem as "+" is universally synonymous with "add", but I suppose there are always outliers that don't understand.

Thanks for bringing the error message language to my attention, albeit quite rudely. It will be fixed for the next release.

thany commented 5 years ago

I didn't imagine this would be a problem as "+" is universally synonymous with "add"

This is true, but "add what"? There are two thingies to add there; a list or an item in that list.

Wasn't meant to be rude though. Sorry that it came through that way. I just sort of wrote down my journey towards getting things to work.