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It's annoying that once software products become extremely popular, the developers/companies often start adding features in an attempt to be everything for ever
by rmorrison 17y ago
It's annoying that once software products become extremely popular, the developers/companies often start adding features in an attempt to be everything for everyone. This in turn makes the software unusable, because the developers are too overloaded to properly maintain their once core business. Eventually it gets replaced by a new product, and the cycle repeats itself.
- thwarted 17y agoI think it was jwz who said something like "every program expands until it can read email" (I'm sure I'm butchering it).
- sparky 17y agoNot butchering it at all, really: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -- Jamie Zawinski
- graywh 17y agoSo is an update needed? s/read mail/\0 and\/or chat/
- rlpb 17y agoI'm not sure that this applies here, though. Facebook is ideally suited to hosting "proper" instant messaging, because it has the added bonus of automatically managing the roster list. I don't need to add anyone, my friends are already all on there. That's a massive bonus over any other instant messenger for many, many people.