I don’t find it surprising at all. The menus are often designed as kafka-esque with dark patterns all over, hiding toggles in submenu after submenu to make you go for the default setting (see privacy settings on facebook, notification settings on android). Then the app updates, the setting is somehow reverted, and you’re back to square one. No wonder people give up.

Seems like they’ve got that covered

I’m no crypto fan or plan on using micropayments either, but if I don’t use it, where’s the harm?

So far battery and data usage is ok, but we’ll see after some more testing

I’m testing syncing, notification and battery usage now on a few devices to see how it behaves. So far, so good. It also lets you specify which type of user you are inviting, so that admins does the heavy lifting

My bad, on the Pears homepage it says “Join the open-source P2P revolution”, so I assumed that was the case.

Someone asked the same question in the community group chat. Seems like the UI for Keet is closed atm, the rest is open.

When an LLM fabricates a falsehood, that is not a malfunction at all. The machine is doing exactly what it has been designed to do: guess, and sound confident while doing it.

When LLMs get things wrong they aren’t hallucinating. They are bullshitting.

source: https://thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-2-the-nature-of-bullshit/index.html

I’m lost for words.

…what if the whole family is watching? Does everyone have to raise their hands and yell “McDonalds”? Including the kids?

This might just as well be used in “smart” fridges. “Do this corporate dance to get 20% off your next Corn Flakes”

Is this real?? Do you have the source?

Cool! Out of curiosity, what was the trigger and/or motivation to make the switch?

Thank you for expanding on this topic, and I get what you’re saying about proper UX and how it requires a holistic understanding.

It least that is what is required to climb from “ok, I guess” to “good”. But is there something that could get us from “terrible” to “ok, I guess”? What’s your take on better, clearer design guidelines for example?

Well, people make good code that is open source, even though it doesn’t make them any money. Same with wikipedia articles.

So why are we not seeing more contributions in the form of better UX/UI it the open source world? I don’t see a logical reason why that has to be the case. The question is what can we do to change it, and also get UX-designers on board?

I have to daughters, and my personal experience has been overwhelmingly positive.

By that I do NOT mean that it’s convenient - it absolutely is not. It’s stressful, and all hedonistic pleasures go down the drain for a period of time. But they give my life meaning in a way few other things can.

Also the traffic is monopolized in platform silos

Check out this guy and his research if you haven’t already. Confirms what you describe, with some rally alarming numbers and data to back it up