Last summer, during another photo walk, a guy approached me (as I understood him to be a Turk) and asked him to photograph. No problem! He asked me to send the photos to gmail, but instead of leaving me his address, he wrote down mine. I was like “in star mode” - OK, I wrote down my email, so he’ll write and I’ll send you the photos. I even retouched them a little - done! But the Turk did not write.

Perhaps I forgot. Perhaps he was embarrassed, but I am more inclined to believe that he simply did not realize that he needed to write to me. It’s a pity! The photos are good, but I had to delete them because… I do not need them.

Yesterday I received a letter from Pika in the mail… Who is Pika and why is she (he) writing to me. The letter contains congratulations - cool! It’s just not happy. Everything must be on time. Having visited the site, I remembered what Pika is, but now I don’t need it, because “a spoon is expensive for dinner.”

And if you decide to send the user such a letter, again interest him in the product. Well, what is it? A few lines of text, and the button is somewhere unknown…

Today, while working on his Space , I decided to check what the preview of the notes ¹ in Meta would look like. But he changed his mind after he saw a “closed door” in the form of a login page. My page Facebook I have long been closed and I don’t want to check I can enter using the login and password or I need to restore the account first (or it will recover after entering the debugger).

But we are talking about something else. More recently, every platform came up with and imposed on us its standards. As an example, AMP from Google or the same pages from Facebook (I don’t even remember what they called). They try to introduce such standards in any direction of technology, because it is profitable to manage the standard and have dependent users.

Hands assemble a billion-year clock from the Lego construction set. The author of the channel collects a lot more. The presentation is interesting - the assembly starts simple and gradually becomes more complicated.

I thought this video was a great illustration of making a product more complex for the sake of complexity. Billion year clock? Cool! What time is it now?

I used Threads for a bit before it closed the door on Europeans and many VPN users again.

I didn’t see anything new or revolutionary there—another social network. Yes, now it seems that your messages are seen by different people and you see messages from different people (and this is already bad ;-), but the network was launched recently.

Here is opinion that Threads causes internal conflict and that- it will force you to change in life:

There is also a feeling that threads develops an interesting internal conflict in people:

Social the network offers unprecedented mechanisms for involving strangers, but many have nothing to offer them to develop this involvement. Someday you start to get tired of nudes, good mornings, sucking on m/f topics, etc.

I think in this social network. networks have a certain cultural threshold. And she will force you to change something in your life as the number of people here grows :)

Evolutionary algorithms in action :)

All this is beautiful in theory, but in practice a mass product always adapts to the majority. Most likely, gradually Threads will motivate people to write nonsense (for example, by promoting it). Society is like this, which means a mass product will make money from it while it can, and not try to “grow” an audience.

Threads is young and so far it really seems democratic and interesting. But I predict that very soon it will turn into Twitter.

I want to be wrong and see a social network that, as the author noted in the post above, will force users to change something in their lives.

I’ve noticed that I get the most satisfaction from systemic change. For example, I added a new feature, fixed something on the site, drew a logo, corporate identity or a key interface element. These are changes that affect not one element (section) of the system, but the entire system as a whole or its larger part (section, branch).

Ivan shared a useful cheat code on his Twitter:

I identify as the holder of the correct opinion in every discussion, so disagreeing with me is literally violence against me and my identity.

What now, bigots?

No takesy-backsies, I’m right times infinity.

I decided to go to the web version of Threads , but did not expect to see anything new - “Subscribe!”, buttons and menus, more buttons, an important switch, and a lot of important legal information.

But I’m shocked, honestly!

Unfortunately, I think that it won’t be this good for long and soon designers will start adding more and more of everything. Now minimalism supports the main function of Threads - it allows you to read and write - design in the user’s world. I can see how quickly Meta will spoil it.

Yesterday, while archiving the finished project, I deleted it (spoiler - it’s not so bad). Fatigue, not a very good mood after a rainy autumn evening walk - all this is not my fault. Inattention is to blame. The irony is that I archived the project to a second disk for greater safety 😆.

At first I described everything in detail, but then I thought that the importance of this note is not in the details of the error, but in the fact that the error helps. Such situations remind you that you need to be careful and stop emptying the trash automatically.

Final: everything is fine with the project files - the most important ones were restored. +100 to attentiveness.

If anyone doesn’t remember, this is what the Lebedev Studio logos looked like a long time ago (on the left) and recently (on the right). Barcode styling, continuity - everything is cool!

And now the new episode of the series “Degradation” - (Spoiler alert!) everyone is exchanging good logos for dull shit. But I sincerely don’t understand why.