I’ll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven’t tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?

  • ClipperDefiance@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    7 months ago

    I’m reminded of this one distro that I can’t remember the name of, but the dev went full Qanon and that was all over their website. Like the distro was actually bundled with Qanon materials.

  • borokov@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 months ago

    Gitkraken. Wayyyyy too much fancyness. On website, on blog, on videos, etc… I like fancy software, but it gives me the impression they spend more effort on the marketing than on software.

    There is also some stories where they started development in open source using community contribution, and close the source when it became usable and marketable.

  • Mimmi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    7 months ago

    Anime and AI generated icon, vibe coding, unknown chinese/russian developer with no other way to contact them but github

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    As more of an art and design person than a technical one, yeah almost undoubtedly, though I can’t think of specific examples

    But I really appreciate the work that goes into a beautiful logo, typography, or UI, and that will often sway me, probably more than it should

    Void’s beautiful logo/logotype is what originally got me interested in it as a distro, and the only reason I’m not using it now is cause I’m a dummy and minimal distros require I use my brain a lot more than I’ve thus far been willing to get my computer up and going

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    I don’t like to judge a book by its cover, but I must admit that the name chosen for Continuwuity (and conduwuit before it) makes me less likely to use or recommend it.

  • darthinvidious@lemmy.world
    33·
    7 months ago

    The only thing that’s turned me off about FOSS is if I see suspicious stuff about it in their bug reports. All software has vulnerabilities, sure, but depending on what the code is trying to do, cannot trust it.

  • illusionist@lemmy.zip
    45·
    7 months ago

    Why is wallrizz the problem?

    Wallrizz

    • has a topic related name
    • unique new logo
    • uses ai in a useful way
    • expresses art
    • provides stuff to theme your distro
    • has a unique branding
    • is inclusive
    • kartoffelsaft@programming.dev
      4·
      7 months ago

      has a topic related name

      “wallwiz” is also pretty closely related to the topic. As OP states it also sounds less juvenile.

      unique new logo

      using a penguin as a mascot in foss is hardly unique.

      uses ai in a useful way

      we’re on lemmy so there’s almost certainly going to be a couple other replies that hammer on this specific point. But for my part: use of AI, to me, communicates a lack of effort. If they had commissioned someone who could be more familiar with the actual project to do the branding, that would tell me it’s a project they gave a shit about.

      expresses art

      I don’t consider “ai art” to actually be art. This is a whole debate we could have but I’ll leave it at that.

      Unless you’re talking about the functionality of the program, but that’s separate from the branding issue OP is complaining about.

      provides stuff to theme your distro

      Yeah that’s just what the program does. OP has no issues there.

      has a unique branding

      The branding is ai generated, which is to say: it looks like any other github repo with a filled out README.md

      is inclusive

      What do you mean by this? Feels like a random adjective to throw out there.