When I was growing up, we had operating systems that exposed a lot of the technical details about their inner workings, and websites that let us use code to customize them, like MySpace and Geocities. UX designers in tech have since optimized away most of the stuff that allowed and encouraged people to learn to use technology and now people get confused by files and browser tabs. And as the knowledge shrinks, more and more things have to be simplified away. I only ever see it as a one way road.
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Yeah, I feel this so much. It's like we traded all that messy, creative potential for a sleek surface that nobody's allowed to scratch. Makes you wonder what we've actually lost in the name of "user-friendliness.
When you come to the fork in the road, take it.
when I was growing up, you could open the hood of a car and understand what all the parts were
now it is buried beneath an enormous tangle of pipes and hoses and stuff
when my grandfather was a kid, he could fix a manual typewriter
etc etc back to the stone age guy who whined about the new fancy imported spear throwers
@Gargron Are you hinting of a geocities like interface to customize Mastodon? Now that would be awesome.
