Should diaspora* jump into the "flat trend" bandwagon?
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It's everywhere. Twitter, Facebook, Google+, even your good ol' Hotmail and iOS have gone flat.
Advantages :
* Minimalist : looks straightforward and "content first"
* Readability : There's less clutter and more contrast between the background and the text
* Speed : Not depending on any image, it loads faster.
Disadvantages :
* Originality : it feels bare-bones for some
* Familiarity : it feels cold and unwelcoming for some
This is basically a philosophical question about Diaspora's direction : should it become a minimalist emotion-less communication tool or a cozy social hub?
[email protected] Sun 20 Apr 2014 6:07PM
Theme's of experience are the past to be kept and developed further more for the future. who knows when the next blockbuster computer movie is going to come out and everyone will want to have there computer imitate that style.
Poll Created Sun 20 Apr 2014 6:22PM
Should Diaspora Just Bank Users Based on Decentralization and Utility functions and not a centrally manifest Style of presentation Closed Sun 15 Jun 2014 6:37AM
The proposal is too confusing and was blocked.
-Agree: Yes I would like to showcase Decentralization and code utility as separate from presentation. in belief that more people will be in honest effort of usable fun diaspora promotion as opposed to large scale evil forces making diaspora look like a unworking ugly mess and marketing it to the masses.
-Disagree: No I believe this will fracture a user style agreement system. placing some at a disadvantage for not having as efficient or mind alteringly perfect system to work with. I don't think the diaspora community is large enough for use to create a custom tailor trade of people doing clothes and diaspora style configurations.
Results
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Agree | 15.0% | 6 |
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| Abstain | 30.0% | 12 |
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| Disagree | 17.5% | 7 |
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| Block | 37.5% | 15 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 251 |
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40 of 291 people have participated (13%)
[email protected]
Sun 20 Apr 2014 6:24PM
I hope I wrote this proposal right?
Karthikeyan A K
Mon 21 Apr 2014 7:13AM
Common we already have a design, why stir a pond just because boostrap has changed?
Frode Lindeijer
Mon 21 Apr 2014 5:33PM
Diaspora's design should be simple and mainly shaped by it's content.
I'm uncertain what is considered flat and what isn't. Diaspora's design seems flat enough as it is.
Jonne Haß
Tue 22 Apr 2014 5:17PM
This proposal makes no sense and I will create a follow up proposal to ignore it.
Pablo Cúbico
Thu 24 Apr 2014 7:13PM
I think this is more a poll than a proposal, or I don't get which action should be taken after agreement/disagreement.
Seth Martin
Thu 24 Apr 2014 9:35PM
Add me to the "I don't understand this proposal list".
Jason Robinson
Fri 25 Apr 2014 6:22AM
Sorry don't understand, please rephrase :)
[email protected] · Sun 20 Apr 2014 6:06PM
Do whatever you want as far as initial user style experience is concerned just possibly highlight that it's called style options and we have them. It's the core of free software make whatever push it out there to the first time and seasoned and it eventually takes.