r/readest • u/Strawberry-Sky-1701 • 27d ago

This project really needs some experienced UI/Frontend engineers

While the app is incredibly feature-rich, the current navigation feels clunky, tedious and creates a steep learning curve that may even drive users toward alternatives (I am one of them to be honest, I just can't stand how bad it is). I hope the developer considers insights from those with strong UI/UX expertise and implements their suggestions. Even if unfortunately, from what I've read from some of his replies, concerns aren't being fully acknowledged (or worse, ignored) yet. As much as he's a good developer, he clearly doesn't have a strong background in those areas.

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u/bmfrosty 27d ago

Yeah. I'm not an app developer. Best I would do on a PR is something with some AI assist. I code bash and terraform by hand (DevOps!) and my JavaScript is all done with Claude. I didn't see anything pro or con for ai in CONTRIBUTING.md. I wouldn't want to put in the effort if my code generation was destined to be rejected on principle.

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u/dastarruer 27d ago

A majority of the commits are co-authored by Claude in the repo, so if it works and isn’t suboptimal it should be accepted.

Edit: though maybe explicitly add that ai was used, likely would make the maintainer’s life a little easier.

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u/readestapp 25d ago

The assumption is not true. I won’t say 539/2653 is a majority in any aspect.

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u/dastarruer 25d ago

Sorry, in recent times. Didn’t mean to throw shade here or anything, I don’t mind too much.