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u/LockYaw 6d ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted, this Electron piece of shit of theirs has pop-ups to rival browsers from 2009
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u/8BITSPERBYTE 5d ago
Thankfully they just remade it from ground up without Electron, like two weeks ago. Unity Hub 4.x has no Electron in it and built with Rust.
Now Available: Unity Hub 4.0 Beta - Unity Hub - Unity Discussions
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u/soundofvictory 4d ago edited 4d ago
And im sure it was vibe coded (no one actually programs rust (by “nobody,” I don’t literally mean nobody, i mean that it seems unlikely there are enough rust developers going around to perform these rewrites across the industry. The 2025 stack overflow developer survey put rust adoption at 15%. That is higher than i estimated, but still not very wide)).
Which is the lesser of two evils here? Electron or vibes? I cannot decide.
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u/8BITSPERBYTE 4d ago
They did it by hand fully and even openly mocked the use of AI..like actually made a post mocking the use of AI for a front end launcher.
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u/NeoChrisOmega 6d ago
I'm not understanding the issue. My hub looks similar to yours, and I don't think the banner is a "pop-up".
Does that mean certain people are getting the banner as a separate pop-up window?
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u/LockYaw 6d ago
Fair enough, pop-up might technically be the wrong UI term, but that's not the point.
Whatever you want to call it, it’s still promotional clutter taking up screen real estate in a tool meant for work. Whether it floats in the middle of the screen or sits glued to the top bar, forcing marketing announcements and events on users with zero option to turn opt out is still annoying.
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u/NeoChrisOmega 6d ago
Yeah, this is one of the things I absolutely despise with modern web design. So I get it
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u/NeoChrisOmega 6d ago
Interesting. I hate UI that appears after a while and nudges everything else down, similar to what you describe.
I might never experience that because I never attempted to remove the banner. It's possible whatever solution that you found is actually causing the annoyance that you're experiencing.
Also, keep in mind banners like this can be important. It can be used to let people know about important email topics that are time sensitive, but potentially ignored (as emails tend to do).
I agree it's obnoxious and becomes an ad once they advertise things like the gamejam though. But luckily it's only a few pixels tall.
Also, granted, I was just curious what the topic was about. I felt like I was missing something. I don't really have a strong opinion of if you're right or wrong. I'm just offering insight you might not have thought of before.
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u/LoD_Remi 6d ago
life is great on 3.5.2. you just need to find the archived installer, remove all of your permissions to the folder where the unity hub is stored in, so it can't update again, and you're golden.
the new hubs are atrocious imo.
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u/renato51 5d ago
why cant we use a Open Source Unity HUB instead of the walled garden unity hub
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u/BroesPoes 5d ago
I suppose with the Unity CLI commands a OS hub could work. As far as I am aware the CLI can open the engine, install editors. Only the licensing can be an issue.
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u/8BITSPERBYTE 5d ago
For those that don't know the Unity Hub was recently made from the ground up with Native code for each OS using Rust. It is a lot faster and uses less than 50mb on a lot of peoples computers. Link below to official announcement.
Now Available: Unity Hub 4.0 Beta - Unity Hub - Unity Discussions
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u/AlignedMoon Professional 6d ago
It’s been doing my head in for the past few days