Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Taking lessons from Valve and steam, I suspect.

  I genuinely don’t understand how these companies go “Okay, we have a very elegant, simple, sleek, and fast interface here…Heres what we should do, we should completely fuck it up, make it slower, and make it require more resources for absolutely no reason”

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  • lambda@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is this an old meme? They revamped their UI and I think it’s (Steam) very intuitive now. I do remember when they had like 10 different styles of drop-down box on the desktop app. But, I don’t see that now.

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    • ByGourou@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Main function are ok, sure, but Steam still is is inconsistant, the 40 different css for buttons is not just a meme.
      Same as discord it had a lot of feature creep over the years so it’s not easy to understand, but for me it’s worth giving up ease of use for theses features.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What revamp?

        The recent one?

        There was no improvement. Everythings worse now. Steam’s interface has been on a hard downward spiral ever since they tried to take small mode away from us a couple years ago, but recent updates have made it even worse since it no longer remembers windows size or position. So every fucking time I start it or switch between small/large mode, I’ve gotta resize the damn window and move it back to where it belongs. and thanks to all the bloat they’ve added to it its slower than ever to do any of that.

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  • verysoft@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's just paycheck justification. "Look we did something, we are useful"

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