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Member when software had lots of options how to configure it to show you the information you wanted? Peppridge Farms remembers. Also VLC and a few other weird

• jacobolus 8y ago
  Ah yes, wouldn’t it be nice if every piece of software had as buggy and unusable an interface as VLC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219757
  • thrower123 8y ago
    I would agree that the VLC interface is kinda terrible. They do hide most of the settings that exist behind basic, intermediate, advanced filters though. I know first hand that it is a lot of frigging work to expose more knobs to twiddle on software, so I really appreciate when somebody does let me change things to my liking, even if I'm kind of stumbling into "here be dragons" territory.
• astrange 8y ago
  Less than 1% of the configurations you can make in VLC are actually tested. i.e. you can't actually configure it because it will break.