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<article>
<p>
<b>Warning: this is more of a roast if anything</b>
</p>
<p>
Have you ever had an update for a piece of software that removes features
without any usable replacement or way to get it back? What about options
being pulled from the setting? Don't get me started on desktop software
using mobile UI design.
</p>
<h3>Mobile UI design leaking into desktop space</h3>
<p>
Mobile phones are operated with touch screen, and have screens that are
small and taller than they are wide. Desktops are operated with a keyboard
and mouse, and have large screens that are wider than they are
tall. Because of that, its quite safe to say that <b>software optimized for
one platform isnt't so great on another</b>. Are you still following?
Likely not, but if you are consider this: why do many modern desktop
programs look like mobile apps? Some of them are mobile apps ported to
desktop though many of them don't even work on mobile. The answers are
modern UX, the web, and <i>GNOMEism</i>.
</p>
<h3>Modern UX</h3>
<p>
<b>Modern UX isn't about making professional software. It's about making
software that looks like it was made by a professional.</b> This means flat
interfaces and lack of customization. Modern developers are like super
entitled chefs. "How dare you put table salt on a meal that is already
perfect", "ketchup? what are you a picky eater?!"... They act like your
lucky for even getting a dark and light mode when the toolkits they use
have themeing. Yes, I know adding more options makes it difficult to debug
but hear me out: all the basic things can be in the settings menu while
everything else can be in a config file or interface similar to
<i>about:config</i>. The normies get their easy settings while power users
can change what they want. For separate mobile and desktop interfaces use a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller"
target="_blank">model-view-controller</a>. <b>The UI is nearly how the
user interacts with the program, not the program itself.</b> MVC allows you
to isolated different parts of your program making it more flexible. Before
you go saying MVC is too difficult I had a teacher who made us use MVC in a
beginner course with some students who never programmed before. By the end
we were all able to design and make software this way. What do you tell
users on closed source platforms that actively make development harder?
<b>Go fuck yourself.</b>
</p>
<h3>The web</h3>
<p>
The web uses html, css, and javascript. The first two being usable
standards for creating webpages, and the third being a buggy programming
language integrated into the first two. Many developers decided to use
those to make software since its cross platform and doesn't require the
user to install their software. Though web apps have issues with bandwidth,
security, and integration into operating systems. They encouraged mass
produced slop. Web architecture has spyware built in by design by
governments and corporations. The fixes include disabling javascript,
cookies, webrtc, webgl... Though these are things web apps depend
on, <b>because its spyware by design</b>. This website doesn't depend on
those things. All it needs is html and optional css. This ties into modern
UX design since web developers like to define new standards that are worse
than the long standing ones. What about new standards that are better than
the old ones? Web developers never do that. This is because <b>web
developers aren't software engineers yet their choices effect the software
development world since they create much of the software normies use which
creates expectations for what modern software should look like</b>.
</p>
<h3>GNOMEism</h3>
<p>
Gnome is a desktop envirtment that is pretty much standard on linux. A
while back they said <a href="https://stopthemingmy.app/" target="_blank">
please don't theme our apps</a>. Sounds a lot like the entitled chef thing
I brought up rofl. Someone made
<a href="https://webb.is-a.dev/do-not-resize/" target="_blank">
do not resize our windows</a>
as a parody of gnome. People thought it was real because <b>it strangely
sounds like something gnome developers would actually say</b>. Gnome tries
to strike a fine balance between mobile and desktop platforms and ends up
failing at both. Want to know what linux desktop has the most amount of
forks? Its gnome! Sure that's a given since its the most common desktop but
just compare it to kde forks for a sense of scale.
</p>
<h3>Accessibly</h3>
<p>
This isn't really something most developers think of yet is one of the most
important things in software development. You software developers are all
dumb fucks but please stay away from doing anything hacky on the UI
side. It can really fuck over things like screen readers. <b>The UI is
nearly how the user interacts with the program, not the program itself.</b>
Just pick a UI toolkit that fits your needs and use it in a sane manner and
things will work correctly. Software developers a lot like web developers
but not to the same degree create problems for themselves that once fixed
created two more problems. When accessibly is already low on their list and
that is how they work things will for sure be a shit show.
</p>
</article>
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