Rounded corners and pill-shaped buttons really infest UI everywhere, and I never understood what kind of ergonomics they are supposed to improve.
And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:
- VSC luckily still supports
workbench.experimental.modernUI
we can turn off; and if they will be marginally clever, it will remain there indefinitely.
On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.
At the end of that video you can see the modern UI preview.
godshatter 2 minutes ago [-]
I don't use VS Code, but when I look at the before and after in the video I can hardly tell the difference. I think the "border radius" problem is overwhelmed by the "too much crap on the screen" problem for me to really notice it that much.
jasonlotito 1 hours ago [-]
Sorry!
It seems the page can't be found
verdverm 54 minutes ago [-]
they seem to have a lot of broken pages, like the changelog :facepalm:
Internally, these companies are the real slopocolypse
kps 49 minutes ago [-]
Sorry! It seems the page can't be found
2Ucoder 1 hours ago [-]
Screen shots? Just open the app, it is glaring with border radius.
jasonlotito 1 hours ago [-]
You want them to install an app and then open it just to see images? That's crazy.
kps 47 minutes ago [-]
> Just open the app
I'd prefer not to.
imafish 1 hours ago [-]
He says to open VSCode
2Ucoder 1 hours ago [-]
A gluttonous heaping dollop of border radius has been added to my favorite code editor. It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes. The designers have been plaguing the web with this exponentially. It was only a matter of time before it spread to desktop electron apps. That time has come now, I have reported this visual bug to VScode.
bigstrat2003 1 hours ago [-]
> It is effecting my coding productivity, as the change is quite harmful to the eyes.
You probably mean "affecting". As a verb, "effect" means "to put into effect" or sometimes "to make more effective". Somehow I don't get the sense you meant either of those.
pyridines 41 minutes ago [-]
Phew, thank you, their sentence was utterly incomprehensible without your correction. I couldn't possibly have guessed what they meant. Thanks.
GlacierFox 8 minutes ago [-]
Some people really get sour when others politely point out grammatical mistakes they've made on a written forum. It's understandable as some people don't really do it tactfully and it can come across abrasive.
Then there's a special kind of person who gets sour and snarky over someone politely pointing out grammatical mistakes other people have made.
amelius 35 minutes ago [-]
Can't some company just patent those rounded corners?
antfarm 37 minutes ago [-]
"workbench.experimental.modernUI": false,
RonanSoleste 2 hours ago [-]
I stopped using vscode because of their ui a long time ago and went to zed. Never going back.
sp1nningaway 17 minutes ago [-]
I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for years!) that I gave up. I've gotten to used to the visual simplicity of Zed + terminal, or often just a terminal.
2Ucoder 1 hours ago [-]
Honestly it is probably time I start using Vim.
RonanSoleste 54 minutes ago [-]
Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)
gerdesj 10 minutes ago [-]
I had to traverse two symlinks to find it but the vim binary is 4.4MB in size here. It does link 13 libs including the mighty standard C library at 2.1MB.
I suppose I could crank out the compiler and create a stripped static binary for it. Nope, bugger that, I'll drink more wine instead.
My Commodore 64 is glaring at me 8)
ivanmontillam 1 hours ago [-]
This feels like the effective death of VSCode.
afavour 52 minutes ago [-]
I want to believe this post is sarcastic. But sadly you just can’t be sure…
hmokiguess 42 minutes ago [-]
Tangential: who's still using VSCode in 2026?
Rendered at 22:06:16 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
And fighting them is increasingly difficult, but at least somewhat possible:
- VSC luckily still supports
we can turn off; and if they will be marginally clever, it will remain there indefinitely.On the web, we can use userstyles sharpening most dulled corners [1]. And if you happen to have seen upcoming Firefox skin, it is also pill addict's fewer dream. We can use userChrome.css, but web components are making it very cumbersome and fragile, basically constantly adding new custom properties, being glad they are really used [2]. But I digress. I really look forward for this pill mania to wear off, like wet floors, glitters, and similar fads.
[1] https://userstyles.world/style/8283/
[2] https://gist.github.com/myfonj/f5415dd0580663a82ea18407ef2ee...
They hired a new design lead who wants to make their mark, didn't they.
https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
> The more an article would benefit from photos, the less likely it’ll have them.
At the end of that video you can see the modern UI preview.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_139
Internally, these companies are the real slopocolypse
I'd prefer not to.
You probably mean "affecting". As a verb, "effect" means "to put into effect" or sometimes "to make more effective". Somehow I don't get the sense you meant either of those.
I suppose I could crank out the compiler and create a stripped static binary for it. Nope, bugger that, I'll drink more wine instead.
My Commodore 64 is glaring at me 8)