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Another mainstream app has changed it's theme for no reason once again (szmer.info)

submitted 1 day ago by ddplf@szmer.info to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

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Basically nothing worth noting has changed, just a bit different layout.

These big companies prolly just got nothing to do but they have to give their people some work I guess. This is not something that's happening at normal companies, it's just pointless to burn money changing ordinary aesthetics to a bit different ordinary aesthetics.

And it's not a small change either, the whole app now follows that slightly tweaked design, a lot of time and effort must've been put just to provide something that provides absolutely nothing of value.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, they do make little changes. The largely visible UI changes are there to hide those small little changes.

Changes that remove little features that nobody would notice immediately, until someone needs it and realises it's gone, or someone wants it the first time and is unable to find it, later finding out in older forum posts, that it was actually there in earlier versions and worked perfectly.
These little features are the kinds that provide power to the user while not particularly making a big difference in the companies' wallets.

If they really had a lot of Dev time and wanted to do something useful, they would have read wishlist reports from users for little additions that would help them. But that does not happen.

I understand this is not a "Dull Men's" answer, but sometimes things need to be said. And this seemed like the correct point.

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

100%. Covering up enshittification is often the reason for changing the UI, and sometimes the UI change is indeed the enshittification.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's «its».

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 1 points 1 day ago

WHAT? No, I'm not wrong, it's the language that is wrong.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My email provider did this again and it just keeps getting uglier and more dysfunctional with each iteration.

No, I don’t want my emails separated by what your stupid AI thinks what group they’re part of. Quit trying to force this crap on me.

Every email provider seems to be doing this and it is so obnoxious.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't noticed this, I have noticed ads showing up in Gmail accounts which is very annoying, but what kind of filtering are you talking about, like promotions/social networks or whatever? I made a proton email before they started saying/doing dumb stuff, but that email seems pretty plain still. I really haven't bothered to venture out with email.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah that exactly, where they separate emails into promotional/social/etc. Outlook does this “Focused Inbox” thing that is obnoxious as well and somehow makes even less sense. Lots of users I supported on help desk got confused by it and couldn’t their emails when it was enabled.

I already have a difficult enough of a time with my free email provider misclassifying legitimate emails as spam and letting in actual spam than to have them do this again. I already disabled it and they reenable it on the new redesign.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ah okay. Yeah that focused thing is able to be turned off by I ignored it at work when we had it. I do know when I would alter spam blocks if an actual email did get blocked that wasn't supposed to for one of the companies I worked out it was 10's of thousands of emails it was stopping, and maybe 2 accidental blocks a month, which was pretty impressive. But that wasn't AI, as that was pre chat gpt and shit.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Firefox on Android just did this to me. No noticeable improvement, but definitely made it less productive and now frustrating to me.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

This just happened to Adobe Illustrator for me.