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Interesting idea, I guess a tech comparison would be revamping the server side code considerably but not making an announcement so users wouldn't think they had
by mfoy_ 11y ago
Interesting idea, I guess a tech comparison would be revamping the server side code considerably but not making an announcement so users wouldn't think they had to be on the lookout for bugs / quirks that weren't originally present. If you test well you could 100% overhaul the back end with not a single end user the wiser. I suppose if you announced a "major overhaul" scheduled for some time then users may be wary or hesitant to engage with the platform thinking hat they should expect intermittent outages or broken features.
- hultner 11y agoI've done this, went from a Windows Server C# based backend to Linux servers with a completely new backend in Java. Nothing changed on the frontend and no announcement, some users gave feedback that the application seemed snappier though but they were never aware of what happened "under the hood".
- thrownaway2424 11y agoThis is known in software as the "dark launch".