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Decisions you can finish on a phone
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Problem
The decision room assumes a wide screen and a quiet hour. On a phone the options collapse, the problem is truncated, and committing influence feels like a mis-tap waiting to happen.
Why it matters
A lot of us govern between things. If the vote only works at a desk, the hive's voice belongs to desk people.
Potential solutions
A phone layout that keeps one option in view at a time, with the influence stepper impossible to brush by accident.
Proposal #24
Decisions you can finish on a phone
- Problem
- The decision room assumes a wide screen and a quiet hour. On a phone the options collapse, the problem is truncated, and committing influence feels like a mis-tap waiting to happen.
- Evidence
- Session recordings: mobile visitors read the problem, then left at the influence control. Desktop visitors finished.
- Proposed change
- Rebuild the decision room for a phone: full problem, one option at a time, a deliberate commit.
- Expected impact
- Members who don't sit at a desk can still spend influence with intent.
- Alternatives
- A lighter page that only handles yes or no. It would throw away the actual options.
- Risks
- A mobile-only flow can drift from the desktop room. Same decision, two layouts, one tally.
- Open questions
- Do we block voting on small screens until this exists, or keep the awkward room?
- Complexity
- large
- Success metrics
- Mobile vote completion matches desktop within ten points.
Hive Intelligence · community synthesis
Synthesis
Drawn from the discussion. Not a decision.
The decision room assumes a wide screen and a quiet hour. On a phone the options collapse, the problem is truncated, and committing influence feels like a mis-tap waiting to happen.
Evidence
- I tried to vote on the train. I could see the problem and not the consequences of each option. I closed it rather than spend influence half-blind.
- Of the last twenty votes I watched, the ones cast on small screens used round numbers and the minimum. That looks like tapping, not judging.
- The part I would spend influence on is specific: phone sessions started a vote and abandoned it at the stepper.
Community sentiment
- Demand is specific. Supporters keep returning to the same broken moment, not a vague wish list.
- The objection is about scope. Concerns are less “never do this” and more “don’t do it in a way that drowns the problem.”
- People brought proof. Evidence comments describe real sessions, not hypothetical users.
Arguments for
- That is the whole bug. The option should carry its consequence, not a tooltip you can't reach.
- I'll put influence on this because the current room makes me feel careless, and carelessness is poison in a vote.
- A smaller version of “Decisions you can finish on a phone” could tell us if we even framed the problem correctly.
Arguments against
- A wizard can also hide the comparison. I need to see the options together before I pick, even on a phone.
Alternatives
- Let me read and discuss on the phone, and hold the actual commit for when the choice is deliberate. Not everyone wants to spend influence in a queue.
Open questions
- Are we designing a mobile web, or quietly starting an app? I don't want a third product.
Treat “Decisions you can finish on a phone” as a problem statement: The decision room assumes a wide screen and a quiet hour. The leading suggestion is: A phone layout that keeps one option in view at a time, with the influence stepper impossible to brush by accident. Why it matters here: A lot of us govern between things.
Community discussion
I tried to vote on the train. I could see the problem and not the consequences of each option. I closed it rather than spend influence half-blind.
That is the whole bug. The option should carry its consequence, not a tooltip you can't reach.
A wizard can also hide the comparison. I need to see the options together before I pick, even on a phone.
Let me read and discuss on the phone, and hold the actual commit for when the choice is deliberate. Not everyone wants to spend influence in a queue.
I'll put influence on this because the current room makes me feel careless, and carelessness is poison in a vote.
Are we designing a mobile web, or quietly starting an app? I don't want a third product.
Of the last twenty votes I watched, the ones cast on small screens used round numbers and the minimum. That looks like tapping, not judging.
The part I would spend influence on is specific: phone sessions started a vote and abandoned it at the stepper.
A smaller version of “Decisions you can finish on a phone” could tell us if we even framed the problem correctly.
I don't want another feature. I want fewer people stuck with phone sessions started a vote and abandoned it at the stepper.
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