I don’t agree that dragging keeping wires is sane behavior.
Well… I’m afraid you’re wrong about that. It’s the behaviour almost all users expect, it’s the most useful behaviour, and it’s the behaviour of virtually all software that has wire-like interfaces.
Can you imagine if all the nodes in Blender disconnected every time you moved them? Ridiculous.
I would consider it still horribly broken if you have to use a special hotkey to get sane behaviour.
I agree, I tried FreeCAD a couple of years ago and it was unusable. I tried 1.0 and it was actually decent. Not amazing but definitely usable.
IIRC when you dragged a component in the schematic view all of the wires would get left behind. Have they fixed face-palms like that?
Ah yeah LibrePCB is the only one I haven’t tried actually. I guess I was put off by the name - I’ve found that projects that focus on geeky freedom tend to not care at all about UX, but it sounds like that isn’t the case here so I’ll definitely give it a shot, thanks!
Have they ever fixed the usability issues? I tried it like 5 years ago and it was pretty terrible. Not as bad as gEDA or Eagle but still, worse than DesignSpark PCB for example, and the people that wrote that thought warping your mouse was a reasonable thing to do.
Eventually I found Horizon EDA which is basically the Kicad engine with a mostly fixed UX (it still has some quirks). But that’s pretty much a one man project so it would be nice if Kicad actually improved.
I assume there’s some barrier to creating accounts that makes it difficult? If not there’s pretty much nothing they can do.
I guess an easy fix for that particular issue is to severely rate limit mentions. E.g. if a user mentions more than 100 users in 1 hour then delay them and flag the account. Then you can whitelist it if it’s a legit CI bot or whatever.
A couple of possible reasons:
If it’s a new company with fewer standards then more niche products become more viable. I don’t know exactly what the situation at Pebble was but if they took lots of VC funding they can’t turn around and say “ok we’re just going to trundle along with this niche watch that is loved, but only by a few people”. A small company can do that.
Advertising / brand awareness. Pebble was very well known, but if you make some random alternative nobody is even going to learn of your existence. This attempt is using the actual Pebble code and it’s run by the ex-Pebble people.
Don’t underestimate the software effort. Now that they have most of the code, resurrecting it is a lot easier.
Having said that, I would probably put my money on them doing a Kickstarter (which will do very well based on nostalgia), delivering a product that can’t really compete with modern smart watches, and then slowly fading into the night. Hope not but I won’t hold my breath. (I can’t really wear watches anyway so it doesn’t really affect me.)
At the time it made way more sense because the “traditional” smart watches were way worse. Not even one day battery life. I would say Pebble still wins on size though - actually normal watch sized.
As for why they didn’t catch on… Probably a little bit ahead of their time, and also less shiny.
After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout, the FOSS community shouldered the burden – both with our labor and our wallets – of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers, especially from victims fleeing the hate speech and harassment left in the wake of the sale.
That is a very weird way of putting it. Like Mastadon et al didn’t want more users? That’s not at all the response I remember.
What do you mean?
Land of the Free!
How extreme do you have to be to only use websites if they are open source?? That’s roughly 0% of the web.
Gitlab is ok, and Codeberg is getting there.
I think the main thing that keeps me on GitHub is the network effect - all the other projects are there. They also have very generous (basically anti-competitive) free tiers.
Eh web rings were pretty lame even when they existed. There are plenty of ways to find new stuff these days. I hear they even have sites where anyone can post links and vote on which ones are good.
There’s no reason for any developers to participate in such surveys, it’s nothing to do with experience. I do though because I am nice.