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kgwxdtoday at 1:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

"Modern" = something that ruins perfectly good stuff in the never ending pursuit of "progress". UI doesn't need to change every few years. It should have stopped changing almost 30 years ago.


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BoxOfRaintoday at 3:36 PM

> [UI] should have stopped changing almost 30 years ago

In some ways it did, modern CLIs haven't changed that much fundamentally from their older counterparts. You can do more things but someone using a CLI 30 years ago wouldn't be phased by modern ones; the interaction model has barely changed.

They're all emulating the video terminals of yore too, which themselves were descended from even older teletypewriters.

jan_Satetoday at 1:40 PM

This. I don't see the point of constantly changing UI as an end-user. The old one just work. It works perfectly. Now that you changed it and thing breaks. :|

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