• JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The Fediverse needs UI work. The new world needs a new internet.

    I’m thankful we have this glorified hobbyist project of a micro internet, because it’s awesome. It’s time for real layout work to make things more intuitive, instead of this “just solder it” open-source-in-the-bad-way energy that sometimes gets half-assedly splattered around.

    For everybody who has and is working on the Fediverse, thank you.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      “The UI is bad” is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn’t matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, “bad UI” is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.

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      8 hours ago

      The reason I dislike this comment is it characterizes the work of many different people as “don’t care.” I would bet money that there are people who work on fediverse projects who care very deeply about UX but have to settle because they have day jobs.

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        17 minutes ago

        The UI’s aren’t that bad. They’re replicating existing apps/styles and then bolting on features. In some clases like immich, they’re replicating them so closely they’re probably open for lawsuit :)

        Loops is 75% TikToc. Lemmy is 60% Reddit.

        If we had a couple of UI artists and Usability people join the projects and crank out designs, I wonder if the devs would implement them and spend the time making the output true to the design.

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      11 hours ago

      Waiting on your obviously so skilled patches to make it happen.

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        9 hours ago

        “You want this thing to be better? Well why don’t you single-handedly do all the work yourself then? Obviously only those with the skill to do something can hope for that thing to happen!” /s

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        9 hours ago

        God I hate this attitude. It’s so obviously wrong and yet people fall for this trap again and again. Stop doing this please, think about it and you’ll realize it’s stupid.