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In 2017, I don't understand why UIs are not totally configurable by now. It should be clear that people have different tastes. I am a fan of full-text dense int

by Iv 9y ago

In 2017, I don't understand why UIs are not totally configurable by now. It should be clear that people have different tastes. I am a fan of full-text dense interfaces a la Reddit but I know I am in a minority. I wish I could activate a content-only CSS. Well, I do understand actually. It is about ads revenue. Fuck that. I wish this ecosystem finally dies.

Vinnl 9y ago
It's not about ad revenue, it's about people almost never taking the time to configure things they can configure, and that if you don't use configuration options, they are distracting/can cause bugs.
- Iv 9y ago
  It should be configured in the browser: I want to display news items this way, I want my image galleries that way, I want my video player with that llama interface...
treehau5 9y ago
Start paying for software then. (Not just directed towards you, but also towards anyone who has these thoughts. That's the only way we get off this model, by showing other models are profitable as well)
- ChickeNES 9y ago
  So much paid software has awful interfaces as well though
  - treehau5 9y ago
    So much free software does as well: see facebook.
- Iv 9y ago
  Not for software, for content and services. Yes that would be a much saner way of doing things.
userbinator 9y ago
I wish I could activate a content-only CSS. You can use userscripts and CSS in the browser, and/or rewriting MITM proxies (when the browser is not as featureful or easy to control), although personally the combination of usefulness and annoyance has to be quite high before I start trying to restyle a site --- not very many qualify. CSS completely off also tends to produce good results, but usually not for "app-ish" pages.