it feels so weird seeing how common is the practice of using a script for any kind of public performance. literally everyone is using a teleprompter or just straight up paper. in my school days, every time i did that i was constantly shamed by teachers for not "using my own words" (???, i wrote the script lol). which made me kinda believe that scripts are a bad thing in general and should be avoided and coming out into the real world it just feels so weird when everyone is so blatantly reading the script out loud - be it a youtuber, a politician, a business presentation, etc. and everyone is seemingly ok with that! nobody shames them for reading a script and not exactly performing "live" and here i am once again, rehearsing my script to the point where i could wake up in the middle of the night and give a proper presentation, because "what if i forget whats next?? i cant just look at the script". except i can. the last time i performed i literally had the script in front of me, yet i didn't look at it once, being too anxious that someone will notice i stuttered... school sucks

@[email protected] just because you are *used to* something doesn't mean that it's good. people don't dislike good ui/ux, people dislike change. that's basically what we've seen with the new mobile discord layout, which got reverted because people got mad. it was, like, the first time their mobile app became somewhat usable, yet because the vocal minority is so opposed to any changes - is why we can't have shit in this society 😫 that's (imo) also the reason why most tech giants a/b test their new features/changes. slowly rolling stuff out allows them to *objectively* see if that change is useful to the users and improves their experience

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] had a service that required some moderation at one point. maybe its just me, but it just felt so weird that some people would willingly spend *their* time working through reports and stuff for free (i did pay them from donations at some point, but it was a miserable amount). the least i could do for them was to provide a decent ui/ux, yet my skills at that time kinda sucked, so the experience was far from the best, which even further raised the question why would anyone do that for free. especially considering i had nowhere near that large of a userbase, peaking at 1k mau yet even despite all that, i had 2 people consistently doing stuff and 2-3 more doing stuff occasionally. and some of the most valuable ui/ux feedback originated from them. maybe some people are just built different 🙃

@[email protected] @[email protected] tbf it *is* true that the west hates russians 🙃