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    genius reply. i love that in the same comment where you say devs can’t be design gods you say designers should make an entire software platform.

    and no, they’re not supposed to be design gods, which is why I said there should be a platform that enables designers to contribute, which would take the burden off the devs. words must be hard.

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      I know very little about GIMP or other OS design software, but does this software have a plugin system that designers could use to extend the software so they can use it how they want?
      That would be another thing to look into

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      Alright making this really simple.

      These are the interpretations of you and your words:

      • you are a dev
      • you think GIMP’s design is shit
      • you think GIMP devs should be better at design and are worth shitting on
      • you purport to have a solution

      My words:

      • stop shitting on devs for design
      • build the solution you purport to have

      Nowhere do I say “designers should write code”.

      Are we on the same page now?

      Anti Commercial-AI license

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        that’s a bad interpretation.

        • no I’m a designer, which is why I’m talking about design
        • yes it is
        • no, devs are devs and designers are designers. I think it would be nice for designers to have more opportunity to contribute to open source projects
        • having a solution is a bit generous. I just said having an easy to use platform for designers would make open source projects more approachable.

        and to your words:

        • I’m shitting on the design, not the devs. stop personalizing criticism it’s a terrible way to live and work.
        • if I could I would

        Nowhere do I say “designers should write code”.

        except for literally the very previous sentence. of course you don’t realize that because you somehow assumed I’m a dev despite my comments being entirely about design and even implying that I don’t even know how the fuck git works

        Are we on the same page now?

        clearly not

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      So, benefit of the doubt time.

      That’s some mental gymnastics in there but let’s see if we can get it.

      So the reply isn’t actually suggesting you create the platform for designers, they are pointing out that there is a lot more to competent platform/software design than it seems, so try it yourself and find out.

      If it turns out you do in fact have the answers, great, we now have the platform you described.

      Chances are you’ll find out just how difficult it is to do what you are suggesting and realise that implying someone could “just” create a platform for designers isn’t particularly realistic.

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        so the comment is about how I might not realize that creating such a platform is hard when my comment says I don’t even understand how git works. weird. nowhere in the history of language has “there should be such a thing” meant or even implied “making such a thing is easy”, if anything it implies the opposite.

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          nowhere in the history of language has “there should be such a thing” meant or even implied “making such a thing is easy”

          I know its hyperbole but you can’t possible back that statement up.

          if anything it implies the opposite.

          It doesn’t, but i agree it didn’t really imply the difficulty was high either.

          I wasn’t saying the reply was correct, i was stating the intended meaning (at least as i see it).


          To answer to your original post, design platforms with version control exist.

          Some use git under the hood, some don’t, most don’t require you to understand git to use them.

          Hopefully that saves you some time as now you don’t have to build the platform from scratch.