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Jesse

@blacklight it’s hard to get people struggling to pay bills and enjoy life to spend what little precious time they have outside their blood and sweat contributions to the capitalist machines designing user interfaces for OS projects. I’ve seen a lot of developers in and out of OS but it’s rare I find a UX designer who is as committed to open source as devs tend to be. Maybe the community is just catching up. I don’t know.

11 Oct 2022 at 15:32 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.technology
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Fabio Manganiello

@jesselawson that's in part true - the FLOSS community has UX designers too, but they're definitely outnumbered by developers that improvise some UX. But I feel also like it's a conscious anesthetic choice in some cases. I see an increasing number of websites about FLOSS that embrace some minimal, pre-2010 UI. It wouldn't be that hard to use some boilerplate CSS or minimal framework and have more modern interfaces. Instead, I feel like it's more a conscious statement in some cases - we want back the web before that we had before the tech titans took over, and that includes the UI. I just feel like it shouldn't be like that. The past decade has seen a lot of improvements on UI/UX best practices, and I don't feel like it's worth throwing them away just for the sake of nostalgia.

@jesselawson that's in part true - the FLOSS community has UX designers too, but they're definitely outnumbered by developers that improvise some UX. But I feel also like it's a conscious anesthetic choice in some cases. I see an increasing number of websites about FLOSS that embrace some minimal, pre-2010 UI. It wouldn't be that hard to use some boilerplate CSS or minimal framework and have more modern interfaces. Instead, I feel like it's more a conscious statement in some cases - we want back...

11 Oct 2022 at 16:51 | Open on social.platypush.tech
STOP WAR (Stefano Costa)

@blacklight @jesselawson "It wouldn't be that hard" LOL just do it yourself, then everyone else will follow.

12 Oct 2022 at 18:15 | Open on octodon.social
Fabio Manganiello

@steko @jesselawson I have a limited amount of time and resources and I already contribute to many FLOSS projects.

I use Gitea instead of Sourcehut because it provides me with everything I need where I expect it to be so I don't have to reinvent the UI/UX wheel of source forges. But if Gitea had to take decisions in the future that I dislike, or Sourcehut had to provide some killer feature I can't live without, then I'd be happy to contribute.

I don't feel like this is a very constructive approach to open-source though - "if you don't like it just fork it and do it yourself". This kind of approach to open-source, where nothing can be discussed without somebody coming up with "just to it yourself", is what causes many projects to have no direction.

@steko @jesselawson I have a limited amount of time and resources and I already contribute to many FLOSS projects.

I use Gitea instead of Sourcehut because it provides me with everything I need where I expect it to be so I don't have to reinvent the UI/UX wheel of source forges. But if Gitea had to take decisions in the future that I dislike, or Sourcehut had to provide some killer feature I can't live without, then I'd be happy to contribute.

12 Oct 2022 at 19:11 | Open on social.platypush.tech
STOP WAR (Stefano Costa)

@blacklight @jesselawson yet you found the time to go around on the internet bikeshedding about "ugly interfaces" of websites that you don't even use, suggesting that it would not be that hard to change the UX/UI to your liking, as if UI and UX were the same interchangeable concept nonetheless. Is this by any means constructive? Use Gitea and be merry, like I do, instead of complaining about what others build and use for their own use case.

13 Oct 2022 at 19:01 | Open on octodon.social
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