Post #2069257
2026-04-19 14:15 UTC
@MediaActivist @mayintoronto What do you mean by sleek? I need help understanding the technological preferences of normies. Not that I'd assume that you're a normie, but I tend to gravitate away from sleek--I think. I'm assuming for now that sleek is different from slick. I tend to be turned off by anything (tech or otherwise) that has what I think of as slick, professional production values. Inevitably it means a big budget project, and if a tech project, monetized to the hilt. If a publication or something, I expect slick, professional looking publications to represent a "pro-business" attitude. For that reason my preferred web style is raw unstyled HTML.
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@MediaActivist@todon.eu 2026-04-19 14:20
@lori @mayintoronto Interesting! Whether it's "sleek" or "slick," I prefer my software to be smooth, easy to use, and pretty - and I think the app I'm typing this on right now, and my everyday Linux distro, to name a few, show that things can be pretty without selling out.
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@mayintoronto@beige.party 2026-04-19 14:31
@lori @MediaActivist This seems like a strange position to take, since a good user experience is a part of accessibility. We're well past the point where cheap = ugly and hard to use. If you're going to be spending hours at an interface, wouldn't you want it to be easier on the eyes, or easier to navigate through to accomplish what you're trying to do with this tool?