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You were downvoted to hell because nerds continue to refuse to understand this. At this point it's flat out denialism.

This refusal to understand UI/UX goes way way back in hacker culture:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/point-and-drool-interface.html

This seems to be a general characteristic of enthusiasts.

To design a good car for people other than car enthusiasts, you have to hate cars or at least be able to place oneself in the shoes of someone who hates cars. People who don't love cars want a car that makes them think about cars as little as possible. The purpose of a car is to carry you from one point to another, not to make you spend time on cars.



Maybe it’s because Bitwarden’s UX is actually quite good? I found 1password’s to be substantially worse when I tried it a few years ago, especially on non-Apple devices. Perhaps that’s changed, but for something so heavily touted for being well designed, I found it to be very disappointing.


That's my thought, too. What about BitWarden's UI do people not like? It's simple to use and clear what everything does.


Maybe name-calling and suggesting they should be mutilated isn't enough. What's your next step?


There isn't one. I will continue to say this, people will continue to ignore it, and the computing ecosystem for the average person will continue to be locked down by corporations that do not ignore it. Free, open, and privacy respecting technology will remain irrelevant outside enthusiast techie circles.

It's a bit like climate change. Scientists will warn, people will ignore, and then we will abandon Miami and will probably blame the scientists.


Having "tattooed on their forehead is a metaphor" tattooed on their forehead?


Excellent, problem solved. I was thinking somebody would have to contribute UI changes to an open source project, but it turns out flaming people on the internet is much easier.


I can't stand nerds that fundamentally can't learn this nuance. It's like the biggest blind spot ever. There are just so many of them in the tech industry working as software engineers, which is why we have powerful tools that are a pain in the ass to use. It makes me hate software engineers, and I am one.




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