victorz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Even if this is to drive engagement by clicking on items to gauge interest and collect metrics, I still don’t see how that’s more important than simply counting views and making an interface that’s simple and pleasurable to use. I guess maybe the lack of proper market competition would allow this? This would be enough for me to leave the platform. (I’m running Jellyfin anyway.)
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Well I’m certainly not paying for it haha. Yeah I agree, It’s just too bad that once again all the color and joy has to be taken out of something and replaced with boring corporate bullshit. Like web design in the 90s was fun and experimental and there are all different kinds of sites and everyone had different ideas and they were all valid, it was a blast, but I guess that’s kind of how things go once you’re given unlimited options. Working with just the constraints of HTML was challenging and then CSS came along and made things easier but then they just kept adding more shit to it and now it’s a bloat fest full of features that no designer will ever use to their potential because they don’t do creative design anymore, then they added all those JS frameworks and blah
victorz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
To be fair, the frameworks allow you to accomplish stuff instead of just coding. The frameworks where inevitable. Doing anything at all that wouldn’t be spaghetti in pure JavaScript would have resulted in in-house frameworks anyway, otherwise every single project would have become completely unmanageable. Even with native custom web components, there just so much overhead in creating them and maintaining them. As well as performance impacts. So frameworks where always an inevitable evolution of the web, as it became, IMO.
But we need native stuff. Standardized better ways of dealing with components that are less clunky than they have been for years now.
Aaanyway 😅, yeah, these things come and go in waves. Minimal design, flashy shit, minimal, flashy. Hopefully they’ll realize it’s a shit interface to use in the long-run, assuming they even use their own service. (Bet you the employees don’t even get their service for free.)
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Meh, what they did was just eventually phase out front end designers, now you just have these all in one guys doing everything and you can tell because it all looks like SHIT
victorz@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I… would have to disagree with this. 😅 If you’ve ever tried to make a whole ass app with only vanilla custom web components, you wouldn’t say all they did was have to do with design. They bring a lot of DX above the vanilla web platform.
Some frameworks bring more work 😆 But most of them do a lot of grunt work with the components themselves, which helps a lot.
But they might have had an unintended side effect of what you describe, as well. 👍