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Braggar
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April 17, 2026
Question

Navigator is irredeemable

  • April 17, 2026
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With this update:

  1. You can’t pin apps to the bottom toolbar
  2. you cannot have your library open and settings open at the same time
  3. you have fewer apps on the library screen because they are spaced obnoxiously far apart
  4. apps from unknown sources cannot be pinned
  5. you can’t find the screenshot and video record button by pressing the menu button in an app
  6. Sometimes the quit app button doesn’t even appear when you press the menu button. 
  7. Sometimes a tooltip pops up telling me that I can quit an app anytime, but the tooltip doesn’t go away and ironically prevents me from quitting the app.
  8. Opening the menu forces see-through to be dimmed.

This UI redesign is worse than what Microsoft did to Skype. I have never wanted to smash a piece of hardware more than I have after dealing with the new UI.

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    steve40
    steve40
    Honored Contributor
    April 18, 2026

    🎭 The Ministry of Irredeemable Navigation

    [Scene opens in a drab government office. A sign reads: "MINISTRY OF IRREDEEMABLE NAVIGATION AKA MINISTRY OF NAVIGATOR COMPLAINTS - Please Take a Number and a Deep Breath."]

    Clerk (cheerfully bureaucratic): Good morning, sir! Welcome to the Ministry of Navigator Complaints. How may we catastrophize your day?

    Man (wild‑eyed, clutching a VR headset): It's the Navigator! It's absolutely irredeemable! I can't pin apps! The spacing is too wide! The menu button mocks me! A tooltip trapped me like a medieval dungeon!

    Clerk (smiling with weaponized politeness): Oh splendid, another one. Do go on.

    Man: Sometimes the "Quit App" button doesn't appear! Sometimes it does appear but only to taunt me! And the see‑through dims when I open the menu! It's worse than what Microsoft did to Skype!

    Clerk: Ah yes, the classic "Dimmed See‑Through of Doom." Very serious. We usually recommend a cup of tea and perhaps… pressing the button again.

    Man (offended): Press it again? What am I, some sort of button‑pressing peasant?

    Clerk: Well, we do find it helps. But if you prefer, we can escalate your case to our Department of Overstated Trauma. They specialize in users who've been emotionally wounded by interface spacing.

    Man: I've never wanted to smash hardware more in my life!

    Clerk (scribbling): Excellent, excellent. We'll file that under "Mild Annoyance Dramatically Reinterpreted as Existential Crisis." Very common this week.

    [A second clerk enters, carrying a giant cardboard cutout of a tooltip.]

    Second Clerk: Is this the tooltip that imprisoned you, sir?

    Man (shrieking): YES! That’s the one! It wouldn't go away!

    Second Clerk: Right. We'll have it humanely relocated to a tooltip sanctuary. They're quite harmless when not provoked by menu buttons.

    Clerk: Thank you for your service, sir. Your suffering has been invaluable to our ongoing research into People Who Believe UI Changes Are Personal Attacks.

    Man: So… can you fix it?

    Clerk (beaming): Oh heavens no. But we can offer you a complimentary pamphlet titled "How to Cope When Software Evolves Without Your Permission."

    [Man collapses in melodramatic despair. Clerks applaud politely.]

    Narrator: And now for something completely different: A user who simply adjusts to the new UI without writing a manifesto.

      Choleni
      Choleni
      Honored Contributor
      April 18, 2026

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

      How may we catastrophize your day?

       LOVE that!!

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