Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
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Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
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Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#2Seriously! Their slick, compact, and beautifully well laid out UI is one of the primary reasons I use I Intellij Idea.
If they force this update, I'll just not update it. Not to mention, since I now will not be updating it, I can cancel my yearly, recurring subscription too.
Hey Jetbrains: You just have to do one thing. And that is: to NOT mess up existing thing.
Even if you stop launching new features into your product for next few years, I'll still happily pay you folks just because your product is so damn perfect as of now.
Please don't ruin it. Forget what VSCode is doing. They are far far far behind you folks. Don't let THEM ruin your product.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#3Obligatory xkcd reference to "UI Change": https://xkcd.com/1770/
JetBrains is obviously becoming more like VS Code here so that they aren't edged out of the market. "Copy your competitors". Complaining as if we are paying customers is understandable because UI changes are annoying. However we have to see things from JetBrain's perspective. They're trying to stay alive in a market where their market share is rapidly decreasing being taken by VS Code.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#4Seriously! Their slick, compact, and beautifully well laid out UI is one of the primary reasons I use I Intellij Idea. If they force this update, I'll just not update it. Not to mention, since I now will not be updating it, I can cancel my yearly, recurring subscription too. Hey Jetbrains: You just have to do one thing. And that is: to NOT mess up existing thing. Even if you stop launching new features into your prod…
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Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#5Seriously! Their slick, compact, and beautifully well laid out UI is one of the primary reasons I use I Intellij Idea. If they force this update, I'll just not update it. Not to mention, since I now will not be updating it, I can cancel my yearly, recurring subscription too. Hey Jetbrains: You just have to do one thing. And that is: to NOT mess up existing thing. Even if you stop launching new features into your prod…
We need to apply Chesterton's fence [1] in situations like this.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#6If you use keyboard shortcuts for everything, as I do, the rest of the UI outside of the editor really doesn't matter a whole lot. I won't be searching for buttons based on color memory or anything like that.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#7JetBrains also published a separate post addressing the concerns about the new UI https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/06/addressing-the-new-u...
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#8Aaaand for some reason, creating a new project from a directory no longer does that. If I select the directory and click Next, it instead creates a directory called Untitled in that directory and opens a project there. Since all my projects, ever, are created in existing directories, and since I do that pretty often, I’ve uninstalled the latest one (after two uses) and gone back to the old one. I’ve used IntelliJ since 2009. Jetbrains, what the fuck are you doing?
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#9> A user interface is like an API for your eyeballs.
Great analogy.
Re: Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
#10Obligatory xkcd reference to "UI Change": https://xkcd.com/1770/ JetBrains is obviously becoming more like VS Code here so that they aren't edged out of the market. "Copy your competitors". Complaining as if we are paying customers is understandable because UI changes are annoying. However we have to see things from JetBrain's perspective. They're trying to stay alive in a market where their market share is rapidly d…
Kind of a strange move indeed, considering their announcement of Fleet, which aims to do exactly that