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by stonedartist 1615 days ago
Many web interfaces use iOS style toggle and somehow use "double negatives"(?). It's a binary decision but still, they somehow make it seemingly confusing like you mentioned. It's like - is the text label, the result of what happens after you click this, or is it showing the current state?
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That's my pet peeve as well. It should read "activate feature x" not just "feature x" and then change to "deactivate feature x".