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Try to view it overall as a product decision. I don't think it is necessarily "stupid". In fact I think a lot of thought went into it. Not just someone saying "

by jtchang 10y ago

Try to view it overall as a product decision. I don't think it is necessarily "stupid". In fact I think a lot of thought went into it. Not just someone saying "oh today I will remove the backspace functionality". I think your arguments are sounds. Don't break existing functionality is good but you have to take it into context. Sometimes you have to in order to make the product as a whole better.

ww520 10y ago
It's just a lazy way to fix a perceived problem, and didn't fix it completely. The correct way is to preserve the states, like the phone apps. iOS and Android have solved it for the longest time.
- galacticpony 10y ago
  That doesn't work. The shitty web app is going to intercept the "go back" event as "destroy all user data, as intended" and you're fucked. If this never happened to you, good for you, you lucky bastard. Now get out of the way, this is a quality of life improvement for millions of real people out there. Hard working people. Mothers and Grandmothers. Think of them while you are bothered to work around this slight inconvenience of yours.
  - tajen 10y ago
    Programmers can buy an awesome mouse with a back and forward button anyway ;) and infinite wheel.
userbinator 10y ago
If the intent of your statement was to mimic the sort of uninformative, bland, and completely generic pseudo-palliative doublespeak that often comes from management trying to justify their ridiculous decisions, you've done a great job. "You don't like it? Too bad, we're doing it anyway" is what such statements are actually saying.
- viraptor 10y ago
  I think you're missing the fact that it says both things. Both "we're aware you don't like it; we're doing it anyway" and "it's a product decision". Emotionless calculation: X% people like it current backspace behaviour, Y% people use it only by accident (they may actually have telemetry to know the percentages). If they change the behaviour, Y% will be happier, which X% will split into "installed extension to revert", "won't care after a month", "switches browser". If the overall change is positive enough, they made a good product decision, even if you and I don't like the new behaviour.

by jtchang 10y ago

ww520 10y ago

It's just a lazy way to fix a perceived problem, and didn't fix it completely. The correct way is to preserve the states, like the phone apps. iOS and Android have solved it for the longest time.

galacticpony 10y ago
That doesn't work. The shitty web app is going to intercept the "go back" event as "destroy all user data, as intended" and you're fucked. If this never happened to you, good for you, you lucky bastard. Now get out of the way, this is a quality of life improvement for millions of real people out there. Hard working people. Mothers and Grandmothers. Think of them while you are bothered to work around this slight inconvenience of yours.
- tajen 10y ago
  Programmers can buy an awesome mouse with a back and forward button anyway ;) and infinite wheel.

userbinator 10y ago

If the intent of your statement was to mimic the sort of uninformative, bland, and completely generic pseudo-palliative doublespeak that often comes from management trying to justify their ridiculous decisions, you've done a great job. "You don't like it? Too bad, we're doing it anyway" is what such statements are actually saying.

viraptor 10y ago
I think you're missing the fact that it says both things. Both "we're aware you don't like it; we're doing it anyway" and "it's a product decision". Emotionless calculation: X% people like it current backspace behaviour, Y% people use it only by accident (they may actually have telemetry to know the percentages). If they change the behaviour, Y% will be happier, which X% will split into "installed extension to revert", "won't care after a month", "switches browser". If the overall change is positive enough, they made a good product decision, even if you and I don't like the new behaviour.