Post #1441141
2023-07-21 03:11 UTC
@kissane thanks. I like your summary of Mastodon UI problems, and you even pointed out a few I didn't know about.
The general attitude of FOSS developers about UI is…not good, and this is an instance of it. It is also why, despite its advantages in security and respect for the individual, FOSS has not yet conquered the world.
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@brawaru@mstdn.social 2023-07-21 04:09
@ravenonthill it's more like, not about ‘attitude’, but about ‘FOSS developers are first and foremost developers, they write code and make things work, but they're hardly UI designers or UX engineers’. Open source designers is a rare sight expect when the open source project is funded by a big corpo like Microsoft. Like, Mastodon spent money on design team, and official mobile apps + joinmastodon ended up looking good enough. Nobody would've done these designs voluntarily. @kissane