I think Facebook just tries to be minimalistic and stays out of the
way, so you can focus on the content. That's actually one of its
strengths. I prefer that to the personalizable, expressive, and
creative themes on MySpace, which make profiles gaudy at best and
unreadable at worst. Most of them are an eyesore. It would be nice
if you could choose a few other colors besides the stock blue
(actually, you can already do that with a browser extension).
However, such changes should only apply to *you*, and everyone else
could view the site how they wanted.
As for Diaspora, why not leave the default theme as something simple
and minimalistic. They will be able to modify however they want.
I'm surprised that all of you missed the glaring, well-known public
fact of Mark Zuckerberg being red-green colorblind (an X-linked trait),
so the blue theme was the only one he could actually see rendered
the way unaffected viewers see it. Period.
The arrogant feminist crank "scholar" who wrote the original article
that spawned this thread, of course, couldn't be bothered to see
past her own delusional fantasies about the way the world works.
--
Russell Whitaker
http://twitter.com/OrthoNormalRuss
http://orthonormalruss.blogspot.com/
Raphael sent me private email declaring the fact of his sensitivities having
been piqued by a sense of humor he doesn't share. I agreed to shut up because
he's one of the four kids running the project. But then now...
> It was probably the flashbacks to the Dark Days of Auto-Playing
> Midi Files that drove him into a rage.
Rage? Wow. You've never heard - or apparently heard of - George Carlin.
> Poking fun is fine, but vitriol is unacceptable.
"Vitriol"? See above. You call it that because you disagree.
Anyway, I lost interest in this project (after having spent some of the summer
boosting it) when I discovered you kids aren't willing to listen to
the old security
farts about how to do this stuff right. You're in for some rough
handling from the
professionals in the near future.
Good luck with all that.
Cheers,
Russell
> Cheers,
> Raphael
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:59 AM, j...@qworky.net <j...@qworky.net> wrote:
>>
>> Also cv's got a followup: "Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Designed by
>> Feminists: Different vs. Revolutionary"
>>
>>
>> http://authenticorganizations.com/harquail/2010/10/05/facebook-for-women-vs-facebook-designed-by-feminists-different-vs-revolutionary/
>>
>> jon
--
Why? The "Diaspora team" are 4 guys. I'm not on that team. I'm not even
an embarrassing drunkard uncle they have to put up with at family reunions:
they can kick me out of their frat party anytime they like.
> Is Russell's
> behavior what you want to see in your community?
Who appointed you Arbiter of Taste?
> If so, you'll have a
> very hard time attracting women to your project -- or for that matter
> guys who don't want to put up with garbage like this.
What sort of crack are you smoking to not understand that open
source projects *in general* are "overrepresented" by males. This
isn't even controversial, except maybe among those who don't
code for a living and haven't seen a real workplace. Keep
fantasizing, kid.
> If not, you
> need to step in. More in "What a maroon" at http://kallistixf.dreamwidth.org/1048.html
>
Hilarious! Thanks for the coverage!
> On Zuckerberg's color-blindness, see Anil Dash's take in "The Facebook
> Reckoning" http://dashes.com/anil/2010/09/the-facebook-reckoning-1.html
> and my perspectives in the first comment.
>
> For theming in general, a lot of people like personalizability and
> creativity. And a lot of people just like to have some flexibility
> with colors, layout, etc. So I pretty much agree with uiri.
>
There's a time when I would have cared what you people think, but your
obsession with "creativity... colors, layout, etc" is laughable in light of your
agressive disinterest in the mundanities of security.
Because UI skins are *so much more* interesting than baking
security into the first developer release. You're not fooling anyone
guys.
Russell
> jon
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2:09 am, Russell Whitaker <russell.whita...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:36 AM, eleusis <mst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I think Facebook just tries to be minimalistic and stays out of the
>> > way, so you can focus on the content. That's actually one of its
>> > strengths. I prefer that to the personalizable, expressive, and
>> > creative themes on MySpace, which make profiles gaudy at best and
>> > unreadable at worst. Most of them are an eyesore. It would be nice
>> > if you could choose a few other colors besides the stock blue
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> I'm surprised that all of you missed the glaring, well-known public
>> fact of Mark Zuckerberg being red-green colorblind (an X-linked trait),
>> so the blue theme was the only one he could actually see rendered
>> the way unaffected viewers see it. Period.
>>
>> The arrogant feminist crank "scholar" who wrote the original article
>> that spawned this thread, of course, couldn't be bothered to see
>> past her own delusional fantasies about the way the world works.
>>
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