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And yet, Windows 98 let you have more control over its appearance than Windows 10 does.
Absolutely :) There was some official addition to 95 that was later integrated into 98 in a way... Don't remember its name.
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> Also they don't "suggest" a remedy, they demand it Would this post have been better if they said “it might be a good idea if you considered going back to the previous way?” I’m not sure how soft pedaling the ask makes it more reasonable. The post is pretty clear in what is wrong and how to fix it. If anything Discord is the aggressor here with a forced change without an “use the old UI” button. If the posts include…
I guess one person's soft pedaling is another's common decency. But that doesn't get nearly as many clicks or views, or HN comments for that matter. And seriously? "Aggressor"? It's not an attack, for god's sake.
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> The whole thing reads like a bad tumblr post. It's exactly the kind of demonizing language that has unfortunately become common in recent years. By using dishonest wording to make your target look like an inhuman villain, it's easier to make the readers accept whatever the writer says. The writer then tries to sneakily shirk the responsibility to justify their claims. Just like at your quote: > This is not good UX…
Speaking of 0 evidence, I’d like to stick a [citation needed] on this: > It's exactly the kind of demonizing language that has unfortunately become common in recent years. It reads like a thinly veiled “kids these days”.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27118267
Writing like this is meant not to persuade, but to incite and coerce using emotion.
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I miss the times before applications had their own theming and just used bog-standard OS provided widgets that could be themed globally by the user. That this has fallen out of favor is, in my opinion, a good indication of how unprofessional and user-hostile our industry has become. We didn't use to need bespoke "dark modes", you just changed the colors globally. We did this in the 90s, when 64MB of ram was huge . We…
Switching Windows to dark mode
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"X elements are impossible for me to see because of Y condition" is a perfectly legitimate piece of feedback. "X element being the wrong color is causing catastrophic harm" is insane feedback. By using silly language, they are making themselves easy to ignore.
“Catastrophic harm” is a phrase you came up with. It’s fair to phrase accessibility concerns in terms of harm, because being denied access to something other people can use is a type of harm. “Catastrophic” is very common hyperbole for something you think is highly unfortunate.
> being denied access to something other people can use is a type of harm
So? I am color blind and could care less
No, you could not care less.[0] [0]: https://youtu.be/B4wUsDozedE
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A person who uses Discord posting on the Discord forum about how the changes (in their opinion) make the product worse to use is not exactly a good comparison to a "bad tumblr post", unless what makes it a bad tumblr post is that it's a downer or you feel it doesn't meet your quality bar for Good Forum Content. By my reckoning, the post clearly enumerates their complaints with the new design, it provides some referen…
The language people use to express themselves is important; forming reasonable arguments is an important skill. Falling back on strong emotional language like actively harms is a crutch - unless well-supported by facts or reasoning. Also they don't "suggest" a remedy, they demand it, and their demand is backed by their unsupported claim of "actively harms".
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Speaking of 0 evidence, I’d like to stick a [citation needed] on this: > It's exactly the kind of demonizing language that has unfortunately become common in recent years. It reads like a thinly veiled “kids these days”.
This comment does the best job of explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27118267 Writing like this is meant not to persuade, but to incite and coerce using emotion.