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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by netdevphoenix on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:30PM (#50486754)
Curious comment indeed made on a website not particularly known for a beautiful design
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by maxdo on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#50486868)
For presentations internally i switched to https://bento.page/ , my agents doing all kind of great CSS animations.

it's not about styles, it's UX, stupid encoding questions, every time you open it, not able to handle big enough spreadsheets, and tons of problems like this.

Also changing document formatting is a pain, i do not want to do it manually , i want ai to do it for me.

On styles, office packages are more often an external communication tool, send a doc, report, to a customer, prospect etc, How can you make the doc ascetically good, if entire office package tools looks like from 90s, scroll is lagging, etc.

Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by pndy on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:05PM (#50487334)
You can see on reddit case what happens when you start adding the "beauty" factor instead of staying with the minimal interface. It may be surprising but for many hn looks good and the only thing it could have is the dark mode - which can be bring with userscripts.
Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by dizhn on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:00PM (#50491358)
The beauty factor is the facade for their full on enshittification plan. By the way I quite literally get angry when an app spends time with a bolted on dark mode instead of quite literally any basic feature. I see it all the time. The app barely works but the feature they (and a ton of users) are happy about is dark mode or a new theme.