Let me clarify why this thread is ridiculous.
The old navigation system was objectively bad. As new features were added to the site over time, they were somewhat haphazardly added to whatever page seemed to make sense. New pages were sometimes linked to from the header, sometimes from the footer, sometimes from secondary pages that they were loosely related to, and some features were so buried I don't even know how they were intended to be accessed.
The devs put a plan into action to fix this. They put an actual web designer on task to create a design that met their goals. A handful of users disliked it, and due to a tongue-in-cheek comment from Thibault, somehow everyone associated with the site is now some sort of hypocritical authoritarian?
What rationally minded people do in such a situation is recognize the change was needed, and then rather than attacking the devs with such ridiculous accusations, and rather than petitioning to go back to the broken system that was in place before, they present ideas on how to improve the design that was chosen to make it more friendly. I believe that's what rational people do, yes? They have a discourse, not a tantrum.
The old navigation system was objectively bad. As new features were added to the site over time, they were somewhat haphazardly added to whatever page seemed to make sense. New pages were sometimes linked to from the header, sometimes from the footer, sometimes from secondary pages that they were loosely related to, and some features were so buried I don't even know how they were intended to be accessed.
The devs put a plan into action to fix this. They put an actual web designer on task to create a design that met their goals. A handful of users disliked it, and due to a tongue-in-cheek comment from Thibault, somehow everyone associated with the site is now some sort of hypocritical authoritarian?
What rationally minded people do in such a situation is recognize the change was needed, and then rather than attacking the devs with such ridiculous accusations, and rather than petitioning to go back to the broken system that was in place before, they present ideas on how to improve the design that was chosen to make it more friendly. I believe that's what rational people do, yes? They have a discourse, not a tantrum.