I remember sometime around the second or third epoch there were voices asking why Bitcoin Core still looked the way it did and not like some of the more slick, color-themed, animated wallet applications in and around the fringes of the space. Looking back, it seems a lot of these software projects, wallets and finance applications were wasting time with cosmetics while Core gets better all the time. I know there's something to be said for marketing and design, and maybe more so on websites but I have to say I'm into the austere graphics of stacker.news
Maybe there's room for improvement and I agree staying foolish should stay central (if not be raised in prominence) but I feel you have to tread that line carefully. The layout you propose would be double awesome if there was a functional reason to the design, maybe a quote or an image from a top ranking post that flips automatically when there's a higher ranking post, or something along that. I like the play on words too but you have to keep these things fresh.
I could see the navigation layout could work well with a few tweaks
I hear you and I somehow agree with what you are saying. However, we know there's beauty in Bitcoin Core too, and it could communicates more with a single image that what is trying with endless lines of code. It does not happen overnight, and we just need to enable it.
TIMEchainCalendar.app above is a great example of Bitcoin simplified complexity, another simpler alternative is the BitcoinCore.app
The other point I want to bring up with this is that a properly designed landing should (or could) give a much broader view of the contents and increase discoverability, especially to newcomers. Highlighting, not only top post but also the bravest cowboy, the newest territories and the recently archived ones (in case someone want to give it a second chance). Endless possibilities could emerge... this is just another one.
Agreed. TIMEchainCalendar is an amazing project. SN has developed a fair bit since inception. I haven't looked into territories yet and what this brings but I love some of the incidental features that pop up on SN even some without any functional need, Easter eggs like the festive animations. I guess there's a lot more possibility with integration of stats and zaps. Also some of the development I've seen like stacker beep Guess everybody has there own ideas about what's useful and what's not.
Things never stay the same. My point was just that since 2009, 15 years of Core development has not been wasted.
I appreciate the notice, I was just reading about support for QT6 on various OS. Seems it's not quite there yet? Will QML bring any advantages or just ability to make it look more modern?
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