Django's goals are probably not our goals for our web application

Re:Django's goals are probably not our goals for our web app... by GuiA on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:54PM (#20378523)

This is a need I’d like to see addressed more broadly in software. The computing needs of many in my non-technical entourage have not changed meaningfully in the past 10 years - they crop photos, write letters, put together videos of family holidays, do basic spreadsheets, etc - and yet every few months I field support requests because their software has updated and some feature has gone missing, or the UI has been redesigned, or it’s not compatible with the new OS update, etc.

Bug/security fixes and new format support (eg a photo editor probably wants to support HEIC in the 202x) are fine, but we don’t really need the user facing part to change. This is a niche that seems open source could fill nicely.

(The big edge case in all this is the web browser)

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Re:Django's goals are probably not our goals for our web app... by kace91 on Sunday July 07, 2019 @07:03PM (#20378569)

Open source software has always had a major problem with user experience (as well as aesthetics).

Most people working in those projects come from a strong technical background, and in many cases users come from that background as well - so there's not much of a push for improvements in areas like ux, nor a business need to improve to boost sales.

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