[joecarpenter]

Uh, that's typical rhetoric about default Bootstrap interface. Like if someone used default bootstrap skin then he's just lazy and didn't really care. Thus unprofessional.

Personally, I think that Bootstrap interface is good enough, but its widespread adoption lead to the perception I mentioned above.

[mixmastamyk]

I understand, and that's why I'm a bit annoyed, it's a very developer-centric attitude propagated by the sentence above.

Personally, an end-user has never asked me to make their software/web-admin look unique. A portfolio site? Sure, but an admin page? Not other than their official color/logo in the header.

Uniqueness is just not a concern with "normal" people, and with good reason as I mentioned above. Still, congrats on the nice work on the site/post.

[jbkkd]

The fact that Bootstrap is widespread, and therefore perceived by some unprofessional, does not make a user using it unprofessional, nor does it make the framework unprofessional.

Are Django or Flask unprofessional since they are widespread?

[joecarpenter]

Unfortunately, you can't compare development frameworks to UI frameworks. No one knows that you're a dog on the Internet. But anyone without technical knowledge can see a site that's built with the default Bootstrap skin and say - hey, I saw it before.

Bootstrap is good and clean framework, it is _great_ for developers. But just because it is so widespread and highly visible, there's some of prejudice around it.

Nonetheless, I'm using Bootstrap in my projects and happy with it.