in thread "Liquid (Gl)ass and the future of technical aesthetics": Liquid glass is definitely cool. Too bad they weren't able to make it more usable. You're right that video-game style UI rendering with custom geometry, shaders etc is the future. I have only done a comparatively small amount of CSS and html and it already... 5d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6 Liquid glass is defi (view hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6 So let's imagine future sofiechan in 3d cyberspace. I imagine it as a city one can explore. Tags are neighborhoods. Threads or posts are buildings. Position is calculated by linguistic topical proximity. This could be styled with infinite character like so... 5d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6 So let's imagine fut (view hidden) log in to judge received 6.6 6.6 The right abstraction for text itself, as we have figured out over many hundreds of years, is glyphs on a page. The page is a thin, flat featureless surface on which text and images are laid out. It ideally has minimal physicality of its own except maybe t... 5d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.1 5.1 The right abstractio (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.1 5.1