[monk_e_boy]

I came here to say the same. My son (10) uses it a lot, he's figured it all out by just trying things.

The other day he had an issue with a slight echo in the audio. He mentioned it when we were out of the house. When we got home I had the idea that maybe he'd added the Audio Input Capture twice ... but I couldn't think of why that would happen.

When i mentioned it to him, he'd already figured it out and solved it. He had added two audio inputs when he was trying to capture his headset mic and his desktop mic (with phone taped to it, playing music) ... I dunno what the point of this story is ... OBS has a weird interface, but it reminds me of the good old days, when you just made it work and the users just figured it out.

I think the polished UI/UX we have these days makes us complacent. Afraid of poking and prodding.

[colechristensen]

I think "polished" UX usually requires a dumbed down interface and is otherwise exceedingly difficult for necessarily complex workflows such as broadcasting.

If your product isn't quite opinionated on the one right way to do things (and only a specific kind of thing) you can create a really shiny UX. If your product needs to be many things to many kinds of people, stuff ends up a bit messy but only to the detriment to extreme beginners.

[corobo]

The first comparison that comes into mind is old.Reddit vs new Reddit

If that's what polishing is please leave OBS all smudged and gross haha

[Jistern]

I adamantly disagree.

The problem is explained in...

Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

https://bothsidesofthetable.com/design-for-the-novice-config...