• lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
    45·
    2 months ago

    Okay, I know I know that 99.9% of humans own a mobile phone, and the percentage that own a computer is much lower, but I’ve always hated how websites (first noticed with Google Search and Facebook) stopped caring about rendering for desktops and just utilised 30% of the screen width. Half the internet is a skinny portrait mode on a landscape screen and has been for ages

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      Fucking Instagram and their Web interface. Try to get the maximum video size on a horizontal screen. Bonus points when a horizontal video is uploaded to their vertical frame optimised viewer.

      I did the math before: it was literally less than 1% of my screen. There’s no full screen feature.

      Not like it cost them even a measurable amount of money to have one developed. They keep it awful intentionally to get you to install the app. Fuck companies like that.

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      There’s one reason I don’t use LibreOffice word processor on Linux, and that’s because it uses a mobile scrollbar, which is incredibly frustrating if your doc is more than a few pages, and completely unusable with, say, a multi chapter story. Just released a major UI update, still unusable, because they won’t put buttons on their fucking scrollbar in app literally designed around scrolling. Fuck you, Libre.

      • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        I hope Calligra, Collabora, CryptPad, NextCloud Office, OnlyOffice (uses Microsoft formats -_-) or OpenOffice (LibreOffice’s origin, reportedly even worse/older UI) are suitable alternatives! Note that not all of them have apps on mobile in case you value cross-platform usage, and NextCloud and CryptPad are web-based only. Other than that all are great on Linux.

        • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          I use OpenOffice. The UI seems fine, to me. Plus they had the Header navigation panel before Libre, which is handy for jumping between chapters.

          And they’re not worried about taking that extra 5 precious pixels off the side of a desktop application to scroll with. Not sure how they’ve managed to spare that space, but the devs are obviously Tetris prodigies or something.

    • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      2 months ago

      I hate how Desktop UI in general has been moving towards Mobile design for the last decade.
      Everything has to always look like the latest shit from silicon valley, I despise it.

      Imo all the work that was put into UI design for the last 20 years has been wasted effort.
      I still use GNUStep and OpenMotif based Desktops because I genuinely think that those are better designed, and they haven’t been touched in forever.