This shit is fucking dead
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:43 pm
tl;dr: rant
Its been 10 months since this board got made, and yet, this is basically a desert, the little bit of active content we have on this board is mostly made of people having a problem and wanting a solution, only in the first 3 months did we had some resemblance of a community. You know why? Its because we're on a fucking board, the only people who are going to be bothered to sign-up for a board(not even mentioning searching for the board) are people who are desperately trying to fix something, or the small number of people who already spent so much time on this app that they are going to participate no matter the platform. I even forget this shit even exists
This isn't even mentioning the app itself, in terms of customization and how it worksits comparable to Kustom or even Tasker, however, it is organized in a needless complicated way, look at how Kustom simplified a lot of things LL does in 4 different menus. Why have Bindings, rather than do like Kustom, and use the code in the field you're going to change? Why the hell are Folders even called folders, when they are basically Overlays. Why is the default desktop and the PlayStore pics so goddamn ugly? Why even have the
Geometry Editor when it could be merged with the Properties Menu? Also, with some redesign the Panel/Folder/Current Desktop Settings menu could be put inside the Properties Menu
A lot of the learning curve using LL isn't about the complexity of the stuff you can do, but how LL presents the stuff, again, Tasker and Kustom, you can learn about what Kustom can do while you do it due to the tips, while Tasker has a very detailed user guide that is shown inside Tasker itself, they even have some odd synergy between them, in that they basically work the same in some weird ways, like using Variables, while LL have the whole binding stuff. And they also active communities on Reddit, because their users don't need to find and signup for a whole website dedicated entirely to a single App, they can post random stuff easily, and also keep an eye on the community without having to remember the goddamn thing even existis
Look, I love LL, been using it for years, but I've come to a pretty sad conclusion that I could do a bunch of shit using Kustom rather LL, not because LL can't do it, or because I don't know how to do it, but because its a hassle to set stuff up on LL.
I know development ain't easy, and the fact that we even got here is amazing, but I can't help but feel like without some improvements the end is near, I'm mad at the idea of stop using LL, but I can't shake the feeling LL is going to die as some weird Launcher without having its finest hour
Its been 10 months since this board got made, and yet, this is basically a desert, the little bit of active content we have on this board is mostly made of people having a problem and wanting a solution, only in the first 3 months did we had some resemblance of a community. You know why? Its because we're on a fucking board, the only people who are going to be bothered to sign-up for a board(not even mentioning searching for the board) are people who are desperately trying to fix something, or the small number of people who already spent so much time on this app that they are going to participate no matter the platform. I even forget this shit even exists
This isn't even mentioning the app itself, in terms of customization and how it worksits comparable to Kustom or even Tasker, however, it is organized in a needless complicated way, look at how Kustom simplified a lot of things LL does in 4 different menus. Why have Bindings, rather than do like Kustom, and use the code in the field you're going to change? Why the hell are Folders even called folders, when they are basically Overlays. Why is the default desktop and the PlayStore pics so goddamn ugly? Why even have the
Geometry Editor when it could be merged with the Properties Menu? Also, with some redesign the Panel/Folder/Current Desktop Settings menu could be put inside the Properties Menu
A lot of the learning curve using LL isn't about the complexity of the stuff you can do, but how LL presents the stuff, again, Tasker and Kustom, you can learn about what Kustom can do while you do it due to the tips, while Tasker has a very detailed user guide that is shown inside Tasker itself, they even have some odd synergy between them, in that they basically work the same in some weird ways, like using Variables, while LL have the whole binding stuff. And they also active communities on Reddit, because their users don't need to find and signup for a whole website dedicated entirely to a single App, they can post random stuff easily, and also keep an eye on the community without having to remember the goddamn thing even existis
Look, I love LL, been using it for years, but I've come to a pretty sad conclusion that I could do a bunch of shit using Kustom rather LL, not because LL can't do it, or because I don't know how to do it, but because its a hassle to set stuff up on LL.
I know development ain't easy, and the fact that we even got here is amazing, but I can't help but feel like without some improvements the end is near, I'm mad at the idea of stop using LL, but I can't shake the feeling LL is going to die as some weird Launcher without having its finest hour