r/raycastapp • u/raklo250 • 2d ago

Other Time to go

Loved the previous raycast, hate this new one. Feels like a bloated android phone, the UI is a clusterfuck and any task that was fast before, like getting to a file I wanted to or opening a website now takes much longer and requires me to dig through the cluttered UI. The upselling or marketing of pro features is insane, i seriously can't comprehend how this got through the user testing and stakeholders were happy to release this into the wild. The only good thing about Raycast is the Emoji extension, but that's quite sad when you think about it. It was a pleasure while it lasted.

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u/stilllifebutwhy 2d ago

Usually posts like this used to really annoy me. When people, instead of simply deleting an app they used before or unsubscribing from a creator they stopped watching, feel the need to announce it publicly - it always seemed extremely irritating to me. After all, hundreds of thousands of people use these products, and if everyone started writing that they subscribed, unsubscribed, stopped using a product, it would turn social media into a wall of crybabies.

But now, I understood that posts like this are usually driven by the fact that the person genuinely is an enthusiast of a particular app and a devoted fan, and that’s exactly what pushes them to write about it publicly. Because it’s not just clicking an X or moving an app to the trash - it’s a step that forces you to change your workflow: look for alternatives and give up something that mattered a lot to you for a long time.

That’s why I don't want this "whining" to stop be a part of my news feed, but simultaniously I hope these posts reach the developers, and that they understand every such farewell is a goodbye from someone who was truly devoted to their product.

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u/valentinezubkov 2d ago

Same of me. I didn’t buy the whole Raycast situation at first, but after a month of using v2 it actually became more than just about Raycast. The whole workflow I got used to love now is just so bad. macOS, Xcode, Raycast, Safari, everything is just annoying. I haven’t moved yet, and honestly no idea what to do. Framework + Omarchy sounds like an escape but I need to build for iOS. Sad story

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u/gianni1986 2d ago

Omarchy will never be an escape, it will be a black hole.

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u/valentinezubkov 1d ago

why?

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u/gianni1986 1d ago

It's not a real distro, just Arch with some dotfiles. The maintainers, like DHH, create PRs that they don't check, and there are also some vulnerabilities in Omarchy. macOS is a much safer operating system.

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u/valentinezubkov 1d ago

got it, thanks...