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> This seems like a poor choice of technology rather than an outright nefarious decision. How would you tell the difference?
by some_account 8y ago
> This seems like a poor choice of technology rather than an outright nefarious decision.
How would you tell the difference?
- rainbowmverse 8y agoI read a really good take once that I can't find anymore, but the gist was: sometimes a company knows about a poor decision or a bug, and just leaves it in because it gives them a competitive edge.
- Spivak 8y agoHow can you ever know someone's intent? I don't think it makes sense to assume malice in this case. - Because YT makes money on eyeballs and runs on every terrible device specific browser under the sun. Making users experience worse intentionally only really hurts them. - Because we're in a forum of devs that are all about chasing the latest features and polyfilling everywhere that doesn't have them -- it's practically SOP. I totally believe performance problems like this wouldn't get caught in testing when everyone has a corp network connection and powerful laptops/workstations.