The other day I went Tumblr to make sure that I’d turned off their opt-out AI data mining and literally could not find the login page. I eventually had to use the URL in my password DB. Turns out I’d deleted my account already. Good riddance.
Oh yeah, I forgot to do that when I read about it the other day. Thank you for the reminder!
Bring back when companies wanted their users using their software, not forcing only one channel of usage.
Amazon:
Spotify joins the chat
It was quite alright. Limited but ok. Then they started shuffling things around and made everything cluttered and cumbersome and ugly and by now it’s seems to be tradition with every update.
Missing in the picture: Apple.
Apple made the table
For $2999. Pay another $999 and you’ll get a set of legs
If the aim is to drive users towards brainless engagement with arbitrary content, they’re great.
But for UX they’re dogwater.
None of those have such a bad UI, if you think those are bad then you probably never had to use atrocious apps for work!
I make the atrocious apps for work.
Let me tell you, every out of place button or weirdly niche function placed prominently on the main screen is the fault of some bastard who won’t buy the system from us until it’s just as ugly as their old system, and they’ve got just enough money for us to have to give a fuck about it.
No you don’t when I say proprietary I don’t mean the company hire a different company to make the app, I mean dog shit apps done by the company dev team that does not care at all about how it looks and just care to be functional. Some of those UI are so atrocious that some of the team members rather do api calls through terminal then use them!
Sounds like Stockholm syndrome if you ask me. Reddit UI is definitely terrible, especially on mobile. YouTube and Discord are marginally better but seem to be busy trying to find new ways to make it worse every other week.
Spotify should also be on that list BTW.
Well probably reddit is worst but on pc I use RES for Reddit and on mobile I used Reddit Relay now I don’t use Reddit on mobile anymore cause the official app I consider dog shit. That’s the reason I’m on lemmy now!
I’m not seeing “Amazon” or the plethora of online shopping stores that have followed in its footprint of complete and utter shit. To this day, I can’t understand how Amazon became so big with a user interface so fucking awful but goes to show it doesn’t actually fucking matter.
Amazon UI is so bad if you type ‘subs’ in the product search it auto-suggests ‘subscriptions on my account’ and a dozen ‘subscribe and save’ variations because people wind up using the product search trying to find that stuff.
Oh, I had that problem too, try changing your search to “bottoms” 👍
Hulu on Smart TVs wins the race by a mile.
Youtube is not bad, but Discord makes me feel like a boomer.
I really don’t get Discord. Why would I want all of my chats in different top-level sections? I much prefer just having a list of groups that I am a part of. I do like sorting them into priority and low priority but that is all I want and it is independent of “server”.
Discord servers aren’t meant to be chats, they are meant to be large communities, like subreddits. Discord is a hybrid between a chat app and a social media platform for meeting new people and joining large communities (that’s the intention of the design, at least)
Discord doesn’t know what it wants to be, they just copied IRC without understanding why it was that way. Catered to gamers due to adding voicechat, then panicked and got confused by the surge of Slack, so they tried to be all serious, but not really, it’s a whole mess.
The point of servers and channels used to have a very direct and straight forward relationship with reality, it mapped one to one to actual physical servers and internal protocol structures. Discord doesn’t need to have servers and channels, to them they are communities and chat topics. But they don’t need to be that either. It is stupid and mind boggling, like Twitter clones using 150 character limits, that made sense when the platform was SMS exclusive, but why would you have such an artificial limitation in a platform that doesn’t even admit SMS input? Other than chasing some platform nostalgia or ideological extremism about platform format.
Discord’s UX is fantastic, thats part of the reason we all migrated from Skype. It’s just a recent redesign they made to their mobile app, that is most likely what this meme is referring to
People were using Skype as a chat room? Why?
Discord doesn’t make me feel like a boomer, but only because boomers would never burn down a corporate office.
Tbh Youtube UI feels great
The discord UI was great. And then they made it ugly and slow as fuck.
Honestly, I find it pretty decent. I only wish I could see timestamps per message on the new UI
I’ve been using aliucord
Thanks a lot for that tip. The UI is Vetter and its also mich faster.
Personally I’ve found the recent change to be a few steps forwards in some places and a few steps backwards in others
One button left called “Watch Ad” and it spans the whole screen.
Looks like someone never tried to use Skype UI back in the day. It was different from, and substantially worse than, all the other messaging and voice programs out there.
Reddit was by far the worst.
