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Why would UI need to be centralized? Even in normal SPAs the client is making most of the work, the UI is fairly trivial to decentralize and there were a few ex
by nathias 5y ago
Why would UI need to be centralized? Even in normal SPAs the client is making most of the work, the UI is fairly trivial to decentralize and there were a few examples on hn already.
- wslh 5y agoThis is very simple: imagine you have decentralized Uber/Lyft so now all the logic occurs in a decentralized way. Now, Uber^2 publishes a great mobile app, the mobile app is obviously centralized and they can decide to use or not and how to use the decentralized mechanism because they are the winners as the UX. Isn't this obvious?
- nathias 5y agoOh you're thinking that centralized apps would always produce better UX for some reason? I think centralized apps are making UX necessarily worse, because they implement dark patterns in order to milk their users, while in a decentralized ones you can just make your own. For example, matrix vs discord, one I can customize and interact with however I want the other is garbage and if I change anything I will get banned.
- ReggieCommaRose 5y agoThe topic at hand is mainstream adoption and I think empirically the world disagrees with you.
- nathias 5y agoI'm sure you believe mainstream adoption is a consequence of a software having good UX and being very useful, I don't.
- wslh 5y agoMainstream adoption is independent if the app is centralized or not. You are ignoring the people who use Netflix, TikTok, Instagram, etc. People care about the brand offering not if they are decentralized or not.