#Easy-to-use UI

[liveblack]

[heehoothefool]

Cannot stand the new Mobile Discord UI, actually. Like. Why? Just why? I liked that it reflected Desktop, it was simple to understand and use and all the information I needed (locations of unread messages) were all in one spot instead of split up by buttons on a hot bar.

Also that DMs tab is fucking trash, dude, that triggers every part of my ADHD so bad, why does it look like a screen of emails what is WRONG with you people?

And why is the settings button so stupidly difficult to find? Like it should not be that small and take that many steps to get to. What the fuck?

I've already used a process to rollback to an older version of the app but like why can't there just be a toggle? Why can't we let apps be unique and have unique interfaces instead of trying to make them all work the fucking same? I use Discord because it ISN'T Amino or Instagram or Google Hangouts or Skype or Steam or anything like them! That's the point! That's the fucking point!

Stop fucking homogeonizing everything into Messenger App #57! This fucking sucks!

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

A quick Stylus script to make Tumblr's new sidebars a little less crowded and more comfortable

So, that new sidebar, yeah? Sure is a thing. The tumblr devs might change things before it's fully implemented across the board, and Xkit Rewritten might add some options after the interface moves from testing to permanent -- but until they do, here's a little fix to spread things out a little, so that your tumblr experience doesn't feel so squished. It results in a dash like this:

which is a little more comfortable than the original, I think.

To install the script, first make sure you install the addon/extension Stylus, if you don't have it already. And then, well, simply click here, and click "install" to add the style. Enjoy your more wide open spaces!

(Code under the cut for advanced users; comments or suggestions are welcome. You're also free to modify your own copies for any sidebar width or spacing you prefer.)

/* ==UserStyle== @name Tumblr - New Sidebar Fixes @namespace https://nobodysuspectsthebutterfly.tumblr.com @author Mindset @description Moves Tumblr's new sidebars outward to make things a little less crowded. @version 1.3 @license GPL-3.0-or-later ==/UserStyle== */ @-moz-document domain("tumblr.com") { /* makes sure this only applies to page sizes where the sidebars appear */ @media (min-width: 1150px) { /* moves the left sidebar further left */ .ZkG01 .h_Erh { margin-right: 100px !important; margin-left: -90px !important; } /* keeps the center section the width it should be and moves the right sidebar to the right */ .ZkG01 .lSyOz { min-width: 625px !important; padding-right: 100px !important; } /* keeps the right sidebar the width it should be */ .ZkG01 .e1knl { min-width: 320px !important; } } }

[damiel-of-real]

RPGMAKER TIP

if a tutorial ever tells you that you cant use ms paint to make a graphic then they are lying. they want to sabotage you

[violentviolette]

i miss kaneki

[your-fave-is-bi]

picked up yakuza 0 again bc seeing new majima game hype made me crave playing cabaret czar and also i never finished this game back when i first played it and i gotta say

having a blast. meandering around. seeing the sights. instinctively ending up at the club sunshine doorstep again.

soon my beloved...soon

[cherriko-art]

I spent 3hrs today creating a new art portfolio website on a new platform only to find out it was not, in fact, free. I found this out after I finally finished making the site.

Anyways that's how my Friday went.

[eldritchmochi]

i have been in boston for five days and ive absolutely Nothing nice to say about it. west coast continues to be best coast if only because you dont need 200 years of lore to navigate the transit system

[m3djed]

i just finished phantom hourglass and holy fucking shit why have i never heard loz fans talk about this game ????? that was SO awesome and easily in my top fav loz games ive played so far for sure . what the hell . what the fuck . everyone go play this game

[attackedbytwees]

It became very apparent in the early days of the pandemic, when so many people had to shift quickly to working from home, that having home PC has become a thing of the past. In my department of 100 or so people, I was one of about 5 who had a home desktop. Around half had some kind of laptop, but a good proportion of them were little netbooks or Chromebooks. Everyone else only used tablets or phones at home.

It's not (just) that kids aren't interested in learning to use a PC, it's that an increasing number of households don't even have one available that they could use.

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

[callmedarthrevan]

android update made my phone look more like an iphone >:( but i was able to turn some of it off!! :) and it gave me more space per page on my home screen for apps and widgets and whatnot which is kinda nice

anyway remember to dig around in the settings kids there might be some fun stuff like turning off the difference between swiping down on the left and right sides of the top of your device to being down two seperate menus that should just be one fucking menu anyway :) and as always: fuck apple

[seraphzrequiem]

Tfw your cishet friend who youve known for awhile randomly drops that they read fanfiction on ff.net

[skyberia]

here's a list of programs/sites/whatever that were helpful to me when i was moving away from using spotify & back to downloading music:

soulseek - peer to peer downloading program, has most music you'd want. there's "rules" to it though and the UI is a little confusing, but you can figure it out. there's tutorials. i believe in you

cobalt.tools, ytiz.xyz, yt-dlp - mp3 downloaders, for the songs that you can't find on soulseek

musicbee - music player, extremely customiseable. reminds me of when i used itunes back in the day. has a lot of good features, including syncing music over to your phone

lastfm & listenbrainz - sites that keep track of your listening stats. i'd recommend this even if you still choose to use a music streaming service

syncedlyrics - cmd thing that gets you timed song lyrics, like the ones spotify has. there's no UI but it's easy enough to use. just grab the lyrics and timestamps it spits out and paste it into musicbee

music presence - program that shows what song you're listening to in your discord status, in case you use discord and enjoy the thought of other people seeing what you're listening to, which i do for some reason

i'm not going to lie to you and say that switching away from spotify/streaming services is an effortless task, it took me half a whole day of nonstop Work to get all my music downloaded and sorted out, but i will say that it was worth it!! and you should do it 👍 if you want to

ETA: for more resources, check the reblogs! Plenty of different people have pitched in more sites/programs/etc that i didn't mention here that might be helpful to you as well

[lizclipse]

ahh honestly it's not a straightforward UX thing. typically, when people look at a timestamp, the most useful thing is to know relatively when it was rather than specifically, and the lay person wont want to do the maths in their head

like, '2024-09-11 2:04am' works, maybe '11th Sep 2024 2:04am' might be easier to some, but neither are perfect mostly because not everyone will read them at the same speed. i prefer the former, but that's because it's the datetime format i'm used to, but pretty much everyone can read 'about an hour ago' and know that it's a timestamp from about an hour ago without having to do an extra step in thinking

there's also the fact that most interfaces simply arent designed for taking screenshots of. like, that's just not a usecase anyone is thinking about. maybe they should but eh the interface is designed to be used first and everything else second

there are middle-grounds that might help i guess, like for a timestamp <24 ago you could give only the time (eg '2:04am'), but that doesnt actually solve the issue here, since you end up picking-and-choosing what parts of the timestamp to show (tumblr shows eg 'Sep 11' for posts older than a day or few)

generally, the reason why a UI does something the way it does can usually be boiled down to the fact that they almost always serve the lowest common denominator, which means it will work good enough for most but not fantastic for many

also, you can hover over most timestamps in most UIs and it will tell you the exact timestamp. depending how it's done it may take a second to show, but usually it's there (tumblr does this via the title attribute, which is the usually best way to do so). doesnt work for mobile but most UX is inferior on mobile

It's absolutely horrible how modern interface design gives times relatively like "2 hours ago" and "1 day ago" firstly because you often see 3 posts all saying "1 day ago" and want to know what order they were posted in, which you are now not told. But also because it means any screenshots of the post now retain NO information about when the post is from. It's also just. Much less useful information. I can instantly look at a date/time and think "oh that was about a day ago" I cannot look at a post that was "about a day ago" and know when it was posted.

[enb-ee]

Your art is awesome! I especially love the way you draw Jamie. If there were official Our Life comics I'd want you to be the artist for them.

[relaxxattack]

for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?

for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?

if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason