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Comment by DanI-S | Hacker News Reader

I am aware that hyperbole is the best thing in the entire world, but does the definition of 'terrible' really stretch this far? How about 'Google Calendar has some design decisions that I disagree with, mostly on the basis of some colors being different."

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A million times this. Apparently a few nit-picky small CSS issues (some of which are just the personal preference of the author) is enough to deem an entire cross-product redesign as "terrible".

In the realm of UI a few 'nit-picky' css issues are the difference between joy-of-use and customer frustration.

Luckily there's an escape hatch in this case: Cog Menu -> "Use Classic Look"

With a site called areallybadidea.com they have to complain about something..

Normally I'm with you, but this redesign reduces functionality and decreases legibility. That's an f'ing terrible improvement.

>>'Google Calendar has some design decisions that I disagree with, mostly on the basis of some colors being different.'

Pretty sure non of us would be reading it if he'd titled the article like that.

a good litmus test: if nobody would read your article without a sensationalist title, maybe you shouldn't write the article.

Text event color looks actually dependent on something like the value component (as in HSV) of the calendar color. I have both a few black-text ones and white-text ones due to my previous choice of color.

Listen, search on a calendar is the worst thing to happen to humanity. I don't use search in my calendar workflow, therefore no one should.

>How about 'Google Calendar has some design decisions that I disagree with, mostly on the basis of some colors being different."

The difference between a gourmet meal and a plate of vomit is simply the way it's arranged.

Edit: and the vomit takes a few more minutes to make too.

Well, that and the peptic acid.

Shouldn't that be "gastric acid"?

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