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"The UI is bad" is the stock attack on any open-source project. Doesn't matter how good the UI actually is, or how bad the corporate version is, "bad UI" is such a nebulous criticism that you can apply it to anything.
It’s a stock attack because unfortunately it’s generally a pretty safe attack vector
Which is amusing, because the UX for Facebook, X and TikTok are horrendous also. So much stuff buried under layers of settings
Well, that's intentional though. The stuff that's buried is the stuff that doesn't make them money.
Bad ux in open source is because nobody has any money.
Well, people make good code that is open source, even though it doesn't make them any money. Same with wikipedia articles.
So why are we not seeing more contributions in the form of better UX/UI it the open source world? I don't see a logical reason why that has to be the case. The question is what can we do to change it, and also get UX-designers on board?
"The UI is bad" = "It doesn't feed me new and popular content automatically"
Basically sums that up.
What is a "Good UI/UX" ?
"That what I am used to with years of muscle memory and anything that is different is bad UX" usually...