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minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·16 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.
minus-squareLandedGentry@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoIt’s a stock attack because unfortunately it’s generally a pretty safe attack vector
minus-squaredantheclamman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoWhich is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoWell, that’s intentional though. The stuff that’s buried is the stuff that doesn’t make them money. Bad ux in open source is because nobody has any money.
minus-squarelka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 hours ago“The UI is bad” = “It doesn’t feed me new and popular content automatically” Basically sums that up.
minus-squareZeroOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·14 hours agoWhat is a “Good UI/UX” ?
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours ago“That what I am used to with years of muscle memory and anything that is different is bad UX” usually…
“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.
It’s a stock attack because unfortunately it’s generally a pretty safe attack vector
Which is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings
Well, that’s intentional though. The stuff that’s buried is the stuff that doesn’t make them money.
Bad ux in open source is because nobody has any money.
“The UI is bad” = “It doesn’t feed me new and popular content automatically”
Basically sums that up.
What is a “Good UI/UX” ?
“That what I am used to with years of muscle memory and anything that is different is bad UX” usually…