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@FonsMans google doesn’t hire designers to design they hire them to operate inside systems tweak a button, ship an experiment, repeat craft doesn’t survive that and this is exactly how we end up with more ai design slop at scale

@judashegemony lol ya the fix is obvious build things people actually use solve an actual problem

So after Polkadot tokenomic change we can see that it wasn't helpful for price move up I suggest one more tknmc change, maybe this time it will help Ok. I don't think this will help and dumb Polkadot developers will realize that they need to create apps to create value for the

100 days later and the polkadot website still looks like 💩 where are the products? new narratives? anything?

faster sprints are irrelevant without shipped products. months later there’s still nothing to point to. people are tired of the fluff. also wild to see parity’s stance on AI flip so quickly once they got lapped.

@mark_cachia_ @andyyy except if you need access to medical cannabis, or want to criticize leadership publicly, you’ll learn pretty fast what’s being traded. every place optimizes for something. some optimize for control. not everyone notices until they test it.

Maybe because it’s true? Quality of life is really amazing. Please come visit and I’ll be happy to show you around. Of course nothing in this life is 100%- air quality isn’t great and is downright horrible on some days, yes it does get hot, and yes there are some super rich entitled people around. But it’s still better by large margins than the other places I’ve lived, which I also love btw. Just not as good as Dubai for me

Why do people in Dubai have this odd desire to make it seem like Dubai is the best place to be and they aren't sacrificing anything by living there??? Very weird, almost culty behaivor

3. Solve actual problem

really strong 3d work as usual. i can see this pairing well with proof of personhood / identity down the line. personally not a fan of the robot character but that’s subjective and i get it’s just one of many possible characters 😁 UI/UX wise i’d make selections more obvious with stronger active states (e.g., thicker outlines and higher contrast/glow behind the selected item) so choices feel locked in could also add a floating bar centered at the bottom that appears only AFTER edits happen, with larger “save changes” and “reset edits” buttons so the next actions are more obvious the elephant in the room though is timing. without real adoption momentum in polkadot it’s hard for work like this to fully land right now and that’s outside your control i think the reality is this may simply be ahead of where the ecosystem is and could go underappreciated for a while (no pun intended)

Hey people, I'm polishing our PolkadotAvatars companion app "Locker Room". If you have any ideas on how to improve the UI/UX, please feel free to share them. Feedback super appreciated. @iamflez, how would you improve it? 👀

@crisnguyen99 US based but censorship is a global issue so nowhere to run really 😓 the EU just has the spotlight atm

@iamflez Obviously the best way for you to do is to move to other continent? 🤣

you’re answering who can do it. i’m talking about the standard for how it should be done. polkadot.com is the primary public landing surface in practice and the place the outside world uses to understand “what is Polkadot.” that alone creates a higher bar for transparency and runway on major changes, regardless of who holds the registrar login. whatever happened internally, there was no public brief, no published rationale, and no open feedback window before it was presented as settled. for something this visible, that’s the issue. replacing a multi year ecosystem wide brand that people have coordinated around through a closed process with near zero notice isn’t just shortsighted. it normalizes closed loop control over ecosystem defining public assets by a single private entity.

@iamflez How can it be the official channel when it’s not owned or controlled by the DAO or the protocol?

this should never have happened. Parity is a private, for profit company. Gav leads as CEO. that context matters. Polkadot was structured so no single for profit entity could control the public face of a common good. that’s why OpenGov exists. it’s one of the main reasons W3F exists. it’s why refs like Wish for Change #1157 treated the polkadot website and brand as shared public assets. now look at what happened. polkadot.com was quietly reworked by Parity members through a CLOSED process, announced with ~24 hours notice via LinkedIn, and pushed live without a finished identity or design, or even basic SEO or UX considerations. just a generic text logo that isn’t even trademarkable, paired with throwaway copy disconnected from large parts of the existing ecosystem, yet presented as “official.” now swap Parity or Gav out for literally anyone else. another for profit company. an agency. even a respected community builder. the same process would’ve caused instant backlash, and for good reason. there wouldn’t be debates about colors or design choices. the reaction would be immediate rejection of the process itself, because a public common good can’t be treated like a private rebrand. and if this only feels acceptable because of who did it, then the principles Polkadot was built on are already slipping. a public common good cannot survive if its rules bend for the people at the top. that should be unacceptable to everyone.

@sorpaas @Undergraphics monad feels very clean and intentional monad.xyz app.monad.xyz

@iamflez @Undergraphics My favorite was ethereum.org redesign. At least it looks nice and it's open source. Plus it's actually useful. The Polkadot redesign to me screams that they don't understand blockchains. Like, at all. (Of course it's not the case but that's how bad the redesign is.)

@alice_und_bob not confused. protocol changes are code and governance. polkadot.com and official branding are official channels, so the standard is process. not every change needs OpenGov, but changes this visible / important need an open brief and runway. the community got neither.

@iamflez you are confusing Polkadot and polkadot . com

@Rich_Valentinoo lol what design

How do you like the new design? 👀

@niftesty 🤷‍♂️

This smells like preview / staging build. How does this pass CI/review? Undo the deploy, add release gates, and stop using prod as QA. I hope someone escaleted their cursor / claude permission and this was published accidentially to main. Some technical issues (not even touching the design / typography): 1. There are no open graph (or other social media) tags at all. If you share it you get the old preview. 2. The shader / hero animation is distracting, too noisy, and does not show relation to anything presented. The text jumps. 3. Even subroutes ALL have the same title + description 4. VERY MANY old existing routes return 404: e.g. polkadot.com/developers/gra… - this is verry bad for SEO and has not been taken care of at all 5. The text intro animations are ok but the top nav animation is not needed and looks very junky Even if there was a clear new story to be told through the relaunch and certain reasons, e.g. getting rid of the old contractors, reducing spending and dependencies, this has to be done with more professionalism. How are the people publishing this supposed to build the next iterations of the page? Who is responsible?

The best advice I got in my 20s: Nobody cares. I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them. Nobody is thinking about you. They’re too busy thinking about themselves. Go do the thing.

@Polkadot so bad it hurts

Polkadot’s new website is live. It's a simpler, more human introduction to a complex system. The last decade built the protocol; that work continues. In the decade ahead, the focus shifts to the products and experiences built on top of it. This is v0. It will evolve as products emerge. → polkadot.com

Polkadot Builder Party Hackathon: The Winning Projects x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

people have short attention spans and memories, so the move is probably to discredit anyone raising concerns, create enough distractions, then resurface later and act like nothing happened. by then some of us may not be around to keep up the good fight if others don’t step up in the meantime. i’ve got other responsibilities, and i’m doing this unpaid. at this point it really falls to @gavofyork and the compensated folks at W3F to step in. the case for cleanup is already clear, and they’re the ones equipped to handle it. ps: the threads are still locked today with no end in sight.

@iamflez I'm puzzled by their behavior. I mean, the marketing bounty is no more, and next time if they want to get paid, the same question will come up again. So it's not like they can actually "dodge accountability". Unless, of course, if their plan is to exit Polkadot.

wake me up when someone actually answers a question💤

the tides are shifting for crypto marketing shortcuts aren’t working anymore most airdrop campaigns are death sentences the timeline is allergic to "KOLs" cheap growth tactics are increasingly ineffective yaps and “mindshare” matter less than ever many teams are stuck repeating the same playbooks, hoping that if they just get lucky the old tactics will still work, but they won't and this means there's an opportunity for the right teams the ones who balance funnel tactics, creative energy & data for the teams who don't settle just for top of funnel awareness, but who also know how to convert attention into acquisition but a lot of teams won't make it because they're stuck trying to take shortcuts

and just a few hours earlier 👇 ps: there is no ‘fighting’, it's actually quite civil.. just a few parties dodging accountability and tossing out false 'noise' and 'chaos' narratives to distract from the truth

ah yes… the legendary ‘too many community flags’ maneuver. totally normal stuff here.