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With 10 toggleable features you add 1023 additional app configurations. This quickly becomes incredibly difficult to maintain and test. Picking and choosing a

With 10 toggleable features you add 1023 additional app configurations. This quickly becomes incredibly difficult to maintain and test. Picking and choosing a feature set for most applications sits in the completely infeasible plane.

tomc1985 9y ago
Oh boo hoo. Back before this automatic update crap you could at the least keep your old versions. Maybe if we returned to building our applications so they didn't require super-expensive bullshit cloud infrastructure you wouldn't have to worry so much about the maintenance burden of 10 oh-so-scary toggle features. Design like this is the Fischer-Pricing of software, infantilizing users for a little more blood to sacrifice to the petty, vengeful god of costs. Yes Skype is a comms app that supposedly "requires" cloud infra spend but... wait... they had a decentralized peer-to-peer communication system years ago but decided to move away from it. It was a poor choice if not to further their control over the product, so they could better force their crap on us when all we wanted was to send texts and make calls.
- always_good 9y ago
  Then don't use it? I don't see why we need to get laws involved. Also, it sounds like you're chomping at the bit to pull one over on Microsoft. Sure. Maybe you feel wronged by what Skype has become. But how would that affect every other operation that's smaller than Microsoft that doesn't have the resources to make -- and I'm not even sure what was described -- some sort of pick-and-choose UI/API adventure. Just doesn't seem like a coherent reaction. Can you actually pitch a solution that sounds reasonable for everyone instead of just corporations?
inetknght 9y ago
> Picking and choosing a feature set for most applications sits in the completely infeasible plane. I find it rather interesting that there have been tons of applications that have, historically, had optional features. Many of them work quite well.

tomc1985 9y ago

Oh boo hoo. Back before this automatic update crap you could at the least keep your old versions. Maybe if we returned to building our applications so they didn't require super-expensive bullshit cloud infrastructure you wouldn't have to worry so much about the maintenance burden of 10 oh-so-scary toggle features. Design like this is the Fischer-Pricing of software, infantilizing users for a little more blood to sacrifice to the petty, vengeful god of costs. Yes Skype is a comms app that supposedly "requires" cloud infra spend but... wait... they had a decentralized peer-to-peer communication system years ago but decided to move away from it. It was a poor choice if not to further their control over the product, so they could better force their crap on us when all we wanted was to send texts and make calls.

always_good 9y ago
Then don't use it? I don't see why we need to get laws involved. Also, it sounds like you're chomping at the bit to pull one over on Microsoft. Sure. Maybe you feel wronged by what Skype has become. But how would that affect every other operation that's smaller than Microsoft that doesn't have the resources to make -- and I'm not even sure what was described -- some sort of pick-and-choose UI/API adventure. Just doesn't seem like a coherent reaction. Can you actually pitch a solution that sounds reasonable for everyone instead of just corporations?

inetknght 9y ago

> Picking and choosing a feature set for most applications sits in the completely infeasible plane. I find it rather interesting that there have been tons of applications that have, historically, had optional features. Many of them work quite well.