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Mikrotik's UI was terrible to begin with, just a big 90s smorgasboard in the style of My First Visual Basic App.
by cmsj 3y ago
Mikrotik's UI was terrible to begin with, just a big 90s smorgasboard in the style of My First Visual Basic App.
- karolist 3y agoThe Dude. edit: more context, that's the Win UI manager with the 90s look for MikroTik. It's not pretty but I know fairly large ISP admins swearing by it https://mikrotik.com/thedude https://mikrotik.com/thedude
- dishsoap 3y agoI like it, it just works and everything in it makes sense. Very refreshing compared to a lot of the things we have today.
- vetinari 3y agoWinbox UI might be not according to the latest UX fashion, but is pretty effective.
- alyandon 3y agoYeah, seriously - it's ugly and quirky but generally all the settings you care about are there and I don't have to click through 15 different levels of menus or look things up in the wiki for the proper cli invocation when I need to tweak something.
- bobbob1921 3y agoExactly, I can think of very few tools/apps that are as effective and powerful as winbox. Not to mention that the entire program is portable and around a few megabytes in size) For probably the past 10 to 15 years there has not been a moment that I haven’t had at least two winbox sessions open/running on my daily desktop 24/7. (Network/Wi-Fi admin , responsible for thousands of devices)
- lencastre 3y agoSome people like VB6 and its aesthetic.
- alyandon 3y agoThe kind of sad thing is that you could style forms/controls in VB6 so apps didn't have to look that way.