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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 169 points 1 month ago (50 children)

Roller coaster Tycoon is one of a lifetime game.

Now everything is electron or react shit. Gone are the times of downloading fully featured software under 10mb.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

I don't think old=good is a good mentality though, lot of people seem to have it

All the old software I know and use is exceptionally good, however I've heard about and chosen to use it because it's survived the test of time (also because it's still actively maintained and has had thousands of bug fixes over the years)

Vscode and obsidian are pretty good and they're electron, discord's alright, pretty sure steam uses some kind of web wrapper as well.

Real issue is electron is very accessible to inexperienced developers and easy to do badly, but I imagine people back in the old Unix days got an equal amount of shit bloated software

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Discord is garbage software lmao. Has been from the beginning. I can't stand using it.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying it's phenomenal but it's generally pretty well featured, running in a browser it's not that heavy resource wise and the API/developer features are very good

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