Of Waffle Menus, Branded Status Icons, and Forced Billboasrds in UI

🏷️ General
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Recently I had the wonderful discovery of noticing on the latest NextCloud clients the status symbol has been downgraded via a ‘new’ branded status symbol..

Same thing with the waffle menu, and now this evening I notice a NextCloud billboard/hyperlink on a client’s site soliciting someone to sign up for NextCloud.

Very tacky. Akin to a printer placing their logo on my office stationery.

So in case some devs have missed the news: a small team has vibe-coded an entire replacement of Adobe’s Creative Cloud in 4 weeks. These cleanroom builds could not have been accomplished even earlier this year with any of the frontier or local models.

As someone with 20+ years experience in Photoshop, the apps are not perfect, but boy are they close. Way closer than GIMP could ever hope in its decades long failing.

So here’s the point: old model of Commercial software is over. The world is changing. Keep ignoring customers and worsening the User Experience at your own peril.

Keep stuffing in branding, increasing mouse clicks to accomplish the same task, and wedging in sign-up links on a user’s self-hosted public share page because ‘you know best’ what the user wants/needs.

There is a reason people will pay $1,000’s of dollars more for an Apple product: the experience. A million little ways they respect the user and increase a user’s efficiency.

Serve the Customer or be excised from the marketplace.

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You know that this can be configured and turned off by the customer? It always depends on the instance, some do want to have this link, some don’t.

You know that Nextcloud is open source? There’s no real commercial product here, you can buy support from the company. And if you don’t like specific things, just head over on Github and start contributing :slight_smile:

Other than that, you know that you posted in the wrong category?

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You know being on by default/not asking is a real Redmond type of move?

Then suppose there would be no need for a BRANDED status icon.

We’ll give you a shout-out in the README when Claude finishes stripping all the NC out of the release, as this is such a lame deflection, so typical of those who would prefer to ignore feedback.

Man these are exciting times.

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ok @LibertyTalk
i suggest to cool down a bit and watch your tone.

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