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Snapchat Petition Attracts One Million Signatures (bbc.com)
One million people have signed a petition calling on Snapchat to roll back its latest redesign. From a report: The changes were intended to separate interactions with friends from branded content -- including that of celebrities and influencers. Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel wrote in a blog post that he believed blurring the two had contributed to the rise of fake news. However, thousands of Snapchat users say that the new layout is hard to use. Nic Rumsey, who set up the petition, wrote that some are using Virtual Private Network (VPN) apps -- which use servers abroad to mask the location of a device -- in order to access the older version of the platform: "That's how annoying this update has become," he said. "Many 'new features' are useless or defeat the original purposes Snapchat has had for the past years." The petition, posted on the change.org website, is one of several appealing to Snapchat to revert to its previous state.
When you have a single implementation of a protocol, some people are always going to hate it. When you have an open protocol with multiple client implementations, you can choose the UI that you like. I wish organisations like the EFF and FSF would spend a bit more of their marketing budget educating the general public on this. If there's only one implementation, particularly if it's closed source, then you're at the whims of whoever is responsible for it.
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The Microsoft Office ribbon still sucks.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Kind of but with lower quality. It is more like sending negatives taken with a Holga through the mail.
Time to offend someone
1 million 14 yr old girls don't like change.
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Oooh, communicating in metaphor like this might rise to "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra". Count me in.
people always hate change right? even if it's positive... well not this time. the update actually isn't intuitive.
Well, I mean, to be fair, Snapchat's UI was never intuitive. There were no UI indicators as to whether to tap or swipe or hold, there are virtually no context menus, no 'back' buttons, and very little consistency for tasks in various swipe directions.
The UX designers went for 'trendy minimalism' rather than allowing users with existing understanding of UI paradigms to leverage them. It's easily the worst UI I've worked with, and I configure Sonicwalls for a living.