Isn't Jellyfin the same design as all the streaming platform and they have nothing to gain for keeping you engaged?

Yeah I suppose, you just gotta pick one thing and then it does the rest, or that's what they want probs

If everything was already displayed, then the clicks per hour data point wouldn't be enough to get the new marketing hire their bonus for that mafe IP metric

You should tell them.

Mobile first! MoBiLE FiRsT!!!

What that?

AI?

AI FiRst!!

The thing that drives me the craziest is when a long title or sentence or whatever is just truncated with ellipses, even when there is ENORMOUS blank white space around it that would easily allow the whole thing to be shown with word-wrapping. Youtube shorts is the most egregious example of this, and they recently managed to make it even worse. It used to be that you could open up the comments for a short and that would make the entire long title readable, but they "fixed" that so it stays ellipsized even then.

The app I use at work to clock in and out ellipsizes my own name halfway through my middle name, and it could be easily fixed by just stretching the control that displays the name all the way to each edge. I used to be a mobile app developer and I know exactly why this happens: the UI designer uses a bogus short name like "Bob Smith" on the original design document and the developer who implements it puts in a control just big enough for that. I used to encounter this kind of thing and I would fix it with common sense, and then the UI designer would get mad and insist that my fix be reverted, even though that resulted in something that couldn't display the information properly.

Icons are used for critical functionality instead of words.

Not just web ui. I've noticed this trend with applications as well. It's much harder to learn new applications now because you have to look up a guide for everything. Hovering over the icons doesn't even work as often as it should.

It’s ruled by clicks, rather than usefulness or friendliness

What was was so great about web design in 2012? It was barely any different back then except for being much worse on phones. And the main reason for your complaints is the need to accommodate phones and tablets.

If it were 2012 now I'm almost certain you'd be whining that we need to go back to the nonresponsive table designs of the 90s

I feel like I'm sharing this website with a bunch of crotchety old men who just want to complain about everything

This is largely part of being on multilingual web. It costs a lot of engineering time and effort to try and translate a page to multiple languages, but icons infer meaning without this need.

Or worse finding a space where something doesn't auto play but scroll does work (when on a computer.)

It's what happens when you let marketing dickheads be in charge of everything.

Yeah that makes since, they don't even have the mouse over information anymore you gotta click thru

Oh my goodness thank you I finally feel vindicated like no one around me ever mentions anything about it, I do need some more friends lol, but yeah as someone who does design and appreciates good design and knows what a hell creatives put ourselves through to go through the process of making something people love and then it all gets reduced to garbage like this

Quite a few have popped up in the thread 😄

This isn’t the first time the aesthetic trend of film posters changed but I‘m sure every time it happened there was someone being grumpy about it.