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This is only tangentially related, but one thing I'm absolutely sick of is rounded corners. I don't know why, and I don't know if it makes any sense, but openin

This is only tangentially related, but one thing I'm absolutely sick of is rounded corners. I don't know why, and I don't know if it makes any sense, but opening a page and seeing literally everything with border-radius makes my blood boil. It feels like they're trying to protect me from sharp corners, as if they're dangerous. Come on, we're all adults here. We can take a few 90 degree angles.

duncan-donuts 6y ago
The new GitHub UI is too damn round. Everything is rounded. I’m all for changing a UI to make it better. GitHub needed to change some things around because it is cluttered with features and hard to navigate at times. But rounded corners everywhere is all I see.
gindely 6y ago
> Come on, we're all adults here. We can take a few 90 degree angles. I know that 90 degree angles on webpages are not more dangerous for children, parents, adults, or any other known subcategory of humans than for any other known subcategory of humans, but ... lots of people who use webpages and dev tools are actually children. Didn't a lot of us get started as kids? Have we collectively forgotten the olden days, when to print something, the solution was to ask the neighbor's next door kid? (who was probably you). Printers aren't any easier to use today than they were back then, but I guess that practice is over nowadays.
- Kaze404 6y ago
  Fair enough, but some of the worst offenders of this aren't really targeted at children or something they'd be interested in. The new Github UI (which I adore, besides this particular issue) is a really bad offender for example. If you go to your profile page, there's not a single not-round border. The exception are the little squares showing activity, which makes it even worse because in the caption underneath they are rounded. What happened there?
hpen 6y ago
This just feels really picky to me. I mean it's a rounded corner for Christ sake.
- Kaze404 6y ago
  Don't get me wrong, it absolutely is completely nitpicky. I just had to get it off my chest :p

duncan-donuts 6y ago

The new GitHub UI is too damn round. Everything is rounded. I’m all for changing a UI to make it better. GitHub needed to change some things around because it is cluttered with features and hard to navigate at times. But rounded corners everywhere is all I see.

gindely 6y ago

> Come on, we're all adults here. We can take a few 90 degree angles. I know that 90 degree angles on webpages are not more dangerous for children, parents, adults, or any other known subcategory of humans than for any other known subcategory of humans, but ... lots of people who use webpages and dev tools are actually children. Didn't a lot of us get started as kids? Have we collectively forgotten the olden days, when to print something, the solution was to ask the neighbor's next door kid? (who was probably you). Printers aren't any easier to use today than they were back then, but I guess that practice is over nowadays.

Kaze404 6y ago
Fair enough, but some of the worst offenders of this aren't really targeted at children or something they'd be interested in. The new Github UI (which I adore, besides this particular issue) is a really bad offender for example. If you go to your profile page, there's not a single not-round border. The exception are the little squares showing activity, which makes it even worse because in the caption underneath they are rounded. What happened there?

hpen 6y ago

This just feels really picky to me. I mean it's a rounded corner for Christ sake.

Kaze404 6y ago
Don't get me wrong, it absolutely is completely nitpicky. I just had to get it off my chest :p