Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
by devwastaken on Saturday May 11, 2019 @12:06AM
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Yep, back in the day when BetterDiscord was a thing we'd be making CSS and some JS to change font sizes, change the color of icons for colorblindness IIRC, things like that. Discord's staff continually acted in bad faith about it, to the point of spreading outright lies about the program being malware. Was a big post going around all the public discords, few ever just popped into the betterdiscord server to simply see how that wasn't true. Also when the server got big enough Discord refused to allow more users, so it was continually broken to everyone. Crazy how wanting to change the chat background into doritos and help people was such an evil threat to them.
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Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 11, 2019 @04:07AM
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See also Slack C&D-ing an extension doing UX fixes in the browser:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17869249
I really dislike SaaS vendors who are being control freaks. My browser, my rules. That was always the fundamental design of the Web.
Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
by gliop on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:55AM
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All Slack wanted was to C&D was trademark infringement.
> UPDATE Sept 14th 2018: After talks with folks from Slack and a rename… Refined (fka Taut) (fka BetterSlack) is now live back
Re:Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
by detaro on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:57AM
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If you read the original C&D they clearly did not just want to stop use of the trademark (or if they did, they certainly claimed otherwise, and got the extension should down vs renamed). It's nice that they could be convinced otherwise, but they clearly complained about the nature of the extension, not just the name.