[remus]

There's still threads on hacker news today bemoaning the ribbon UI and harking back to the good old days of drop down menus, and how great it was to be a power user back then. If you're after an example of a UI change with minimal blowback then I think this is a poor example!

[egsmi]

I didn't say anything about minimizing blow back. I agreed that there will be blow back. But life moves on.

[pas]

Exactly. Every Facebook design change was decried loudly. Then no one really gave a single faint fuck about it in a few weeks.