Hello everyone, wish you'll great and best of luck.
As we now, epoch 056 validation has ended, but unfortunely I getting killed because of "that damn button", "submit answer". I know this sound absurd but bear with me, I will explain how it happened, the problem with the current submit answer button, the problem with validation windows and my suggestion to make "submit button" and validation windows better.
Background Story
I know idena about I month ago and started to join in. My very first validation was on the epoch 054, it went great even tho there was some problem after the validation ended as we all know. Moving forward I was validated with 100% score and get status as newbie.

On the next epoch (epoch 55) thing go smoothly as well, I had no problem getting validated with the score of 100 %

The next epoch was disaster for me
Epoch 056 Validation
I prepare this validation 1 hour earlier, my node sync and running, had erased my cache, all in all, all is well. I knew when I passed this validation my status get verified and I can't hold the excitement.
until...
validation started...
Short session begin. Out of adrenaline, because of quite nervous on how short the short session is I answered the first flip and CLICKED THE "SUBMIT BUTTON" !!

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And you know what happened ? It ended my short session and begin long session without any confirmation at all!
I went on on long session like nothing happened, finished it with 100% accuracy. I mean I still thinking even tho I just answered 1 flips, submitted it on time and got 100% accuracy on long session, sure enough I still get validated, because I attended and finished it, right ?
Oh boy how wrong am I !
After validation I shocked to know that my identity is killed ! All my iDNA was lost and I only got the stake (which is about 20 iDNA)


That's why I decided to write this post and to inform how stupid it is to got killed even tho you attend the validation, you submit short and long session answer, with 100% accuracy and getting killed because of the submit button.
but how and why it happening you ask, what's the problem with submit button (and validation windows in general), let me explain
"Submit answer" Button Problem
Ok, we start with the validation windows

[image courtesy of https://bruno.id/running-a-dedicated-idena-node/]
You get flips on the center, arrow left and right beside flips, the flip counter below flip, and "submit answer" button with blue button on the left button corner.
I'll ask you question, when you do flip with limited amount of time, answer it and see the blue submit answer button more prominent than arrow left / right, what will you choose ?
click the "submit answer" button right. Because your intuition will go to below and the blue submit button more prominent than arrow left / right so it's logical to click it because of the logical flow.
You see, the problem is when you click the blue more prominent "submit answer" button, there are NO CONFIRMATION TO ENDED THE SHORT SESSION AT ALL! it just... end.... and start the long session
There's no "You sure with your answer" type of confirmation, like I said it just end...
Suggestion for "Submit Answer" Button
So, to make this won't happen again, I propose changes as follow
Make a confirmation before submitting the flips
Confirmation like "You sure with your answer ?" will make a different whether get your identity killed or validated
Un-active the "Submit Answer" button before all flip answered or viewed
Making "Submit Answer" un-active (unclickable) by greyed it out, and when user viewed all the flip or answered it then make it active (clickable). This way will reduce the chance user clicked "submit answer" button very first time they see it (like I did).
Make a guidance about how to do validation before validation start (10 minute before start)
As we know the validation windows was quite confusing (misleading answer button, non logical order, tiny next arrow). So to makes thing easier for the newcomers, and makes it remember to existed user, I proposed guidance windows on how to do validation 10 minutes before validation start. This way newcomers will benefit to what to expect on validation, how to do validation, get confidence to their very first validation . The existed user will benefit to remember how to do validation (because validation 2 weeks apart), and reduces the chances of confusion.
Verdict
All in all, that's my 1 month experience with idena. I could say I enjoy it, even when they still have problem like this. even when my identity get killed because of my stupidity, I want to make idena better.
For follow up I raise the isue on their github page
https://github.com/idena-network/idena-desktop/issues/460
Please everyone raise the issue to the dev team so they implemented it.
I would make request please implemented it in the next epoch as it would greatly increase the user experience.
please if you got question discuss it here.
thank you very much, thats all I could say.
p.s. I'm posting this using my friend identity since my identity can't be used to login.
disclaimer, since english is not my first language, please pardon me if any mistake on this post.