Bonnie “Bee” K
The thing about apps like mIRC, ICQ, and Winamp is that they felt like they were made by people who used them. Apps today feel like they were designed by a committee looking at a spreadsheet.
When an app is missing basic features and still pesters me whenever I open it to try some new AI bullshit, I wonder if the PM got the promotion they were going for.
That’s one of the things I like about open source apps. Even if they’re less polished, you can feel they are made by people who use them.
tech? no! man, see...
@zombierustpunk the completely different vibe that comes from "bad because it's really hard and expensive for people to make it good" vs "bad because a VP decided to make it bad in order to get a promotion"
use enough corporate software and you get real good at telling the difference
Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢
@zombierustpunk LOL. This exactly!
FB for example. I've been complaining how hard it is to check profiles and then remove them. My constant rant is their devs don't really use their own products the way regular users do.
They just do what their “bosses” want them to do, not because those are the features they think users need.
In FB's case, the powers-that-be doesn't like people “unfriending” because it's going to mess up their algorithms, especially when it comes to ads.
Another complaint I have is how the QA and bug testing teams, for the past few years, turned into a rigid system. They're given a set of things to test, and add a checkmark after they tested it following a rigid protocol. In turn, missing other bugs.
Back in my day, we use products the way we expect regular users will use it, and even think of the craziest and unlikely use. That's when we discover bugs that no one expected. Bugs introduced because of the changes made.
That method is gone now. It's all about “work performance”. And the only way to measure “work performance” is if you have checklists.
Chase
@KevinMarks @zombierustpunk it's so important. And if you can't do that make sure you look at people that do.
In my last team we'd regularly travel through Germany with the entire dev team to visit the warehouses our app was used in so er could watch how people used it and directly talk to the people working with it
Kevin Marks
@zombierustpunk this is the "Eat what you cook" principle https://indieweb.org/use_what_you_make
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