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?
Al the time. Offputting names and branding, AI logos or images, lack of basic feature explanations, lack of any screenshots, and so on.
After all that I’m only interested in using a small fraction of the various projects I come across that would be useful to me.
Actively offensive branding might turn me off, but I have a high tolerance for low-quality artwork and such, or I wouldn’t be able to use FOSS at all. Honestly, most programmer-generated branding has never been very good—at best, you might get a witty project name, but it’s often accompanied by a cheesy tagline and a cruddy icon that doesn’t render well at small sizes and so is useless as an icon.
Is the logo ai generated? I’ve had coworkers who could rip out a logo like this in no time from scratch. I’m on my phone (without my readers) so maybe I’m missing something. As far as style goes, I’d just note that every time a new style is “the thing”, everyone did things in that style - long before AI.
That said, that looks pretty cool and I’m going to check it out. I don’t really give a crap about branding unless its something problematic (like the person mentioning the qanon distro - I won’t touch framework anymore, won’t touch ruby on rails, Omarchy, etc, but thats less branding and more leadership). Ive seen terrible branding for amazing tools, and amazing branding for terrible tools. As long as they aren’t parroting the proud boys or something, its fair game to me.
Anime and AI generated icon, vibe coding, unknown chinese/russian developer with no other way to contact them but github
I was interested in one particular piece of forum software, that is until I read the anti-woke screed they had on the page
Not really. I mean, my favorite NES emulator is called NESticle and its icon is an 8-bit nutsack.
I might not use something called “UsersOfThisAppAreDumbasses,” tho. Unless it’s the only thing that does exactly what I need or something.
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.
Same. And they choose those names to filter out people on purpose
Where did you get this from?
Apparently they succeeded. :) Do they explain somewhere?
I don’t have a problem with that, but it does seem strange that they would continually submit their project for inclusion in the weekly Matrix announcements while at the same time trying to discourage the general public from using it.
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
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.
I feel bad about it, but I’m really not a fan of the art they filled newer releases of Universal Blue’s Aurora with. Almost made me dismiss it as a potential distro.
Yeah, really anything to do with anime girls and hentai.
What foss app uses hentai in branding?
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.
I had to use this software at one of the companies I worked at and it was such a painful experience. This was 4 years ago, so it may have improved since then.
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.
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
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.
is inclusive
You need to explain exactly what the last one means, and how it compares to similar software.
