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Is product quality degrading on the internet over time? It used to be that once a week or longer I would find some amusing bug. But now it's not uncommon for t
by warent 9y ago
Is product quality degrading on the internet over time?
It used to be that once a week or longer I would find some amusing bug. But now it's not uncommon for that I encounter dozens of bugs daily on various popular services that are worth $millions or $billions, which is just obnoxious. Not only that, but usually the services have no way of filing a bug report or getting in touch with support.
It seems like internet giants are becoming too big for their britches, and also they're forcing each other into this insane cycle of "ship first, fix later" just to stay competitive.
What can we do about this, if anything?
- jcadam 9y agoNothing. It seems the secret to success in software is shipping as fast as possible, and so far the market has proven that users are extremely forgiving of bad quality. And bad security. And hostile privacy practices. Users suck.
- mattigames 9y agoExactly, you could be killing a baby for each HTTP request and they wouldn't care, as long as its useful and don't costs them a dollar.
- rco8786 9y agoYou encounter dozens of bugs daily? That doesn’t really pass the smell test.
- jimktrains2 9y agoAcross multiple services 5hat seems right. So much stuff has broken or buggy UI it's not funny.
- rco8786 9y agoConsider that the bare minimum for dozens is 24...
- jimktrains2 9y agoThere are _a lot_ of ui bugs. I easily hit 24 an hour with some products. I probably hit at least 24 bugs a day on my phone. Apps crashing. Back not working right. Apps popping up and disappearing. Unexpected latency causing wrong things to be clicked on. They're all just papercuts, but there are so many of them.
- singlow 9y agoThere are several services I use daily which have bugs I encounter regularly, and have for years - just have to know the workaround. I built some of them :)
- trumped 9y agoNobody can write perfect software yet, as far as I know. And popular software has a bunch of engineers that need something to do so they often change/add features for no great reason. In the process they add/change/remove bugs.
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- Buge 9y agoYou probably do more on the internet now. Both spending more time, and also using services that have more functionality. The more functionality there is, the more surface area there is for bugs to sneak in.