For a long while, platforms have been making tons of usually pointless, often harmful changes to their UI. Reddit & Discord provide tons of examples.
- Reddit’s video player changes have been an issue for as old as time.
- Discord has forced their new mobile UI, which I absolutely despise.
- Reddit’s new logo looks uncanny. (I wouldn’t say the 3D character in general looks awful, and a couple of the expressions are honestly quite cute, but what they went with just doesn’t look good).
- A while back, Discord made messages with multiple images display them in this stupid grid layout that resizes & crops them to death.
And that’s not mentioning all of the other changes that don’t seem to actually accomplish any purpose.
So, why do you think they do this? Is there some good reason to it that I’m missing? Is it strategic business stuff? My personal theory is that they need to have the UI designers doing something and so roll out pointless changes to justify paying them.
I just got the Discord update, meh, seems ok to me, maybe even a bit more convenient. They obviously think it’s an improvement.
I am surprised because majority of the discord userbase seems to disagree with you, just check out r/Discord for instance lol.
They removed quick switcher and automatic mode still uses the old dark mode
Search in-a-server also looks ugly in the channel list like a sore thumb; why not just use browse channels + quick switcher?
Settings is a bit harder to get to. Why not just combine it with “You” altogether like I think the old one did?
They also introduced a fucking inconsistency: categories are now normal case instead of upper