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by userbinator 1641 days ago
It's amazing how much more usable applications become when their UIs are consistent with the other UI of the platform. Unfortunately, marketing wants every product to "stand out" and thus (even before the Electron fad started) they develop custom controls and other annoying "uniqueness".

The Zoom one reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe --- yes, videoconferencing was actually possible on the hardware of the time.