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> Why? I think the unspoken alternative to boring is gross negligent incompetence. That's.... that's just silly. How would you deliver, say, Trello as a boring

• JadeNB 5y ago
  > That's.... that's just silly. How would you deliver, say, Trello as a boring website? Or Google Maps? Or Grafana? Do you really think the developers of these apps are grossly negligent? Of those, I've used only Google Maps. Like Google itself, GMaps was great when it started! And they continue adding new knowledge to it that makes it more useful. But, like Google itself (though not as bad), when it comes to the interface it feels like there's mostly change just for the sake of change, with little thought given to whether it's good or bad change, so long as it's new. (I compare it to the StackExchange empire, which seems to suffer a similar churn mostly for the sake of the appearance of motion and of novelty.)
• echelon 5y ago
  I spend 90+% of my time on the web reading and writing. Only 5 - 10% using web "apps". The web stack leaned too heavily into application development, but its primary use is still in delivering rich text.
  • austincheney 5y ago
    Regardless, why does the experience differ so significantly? It clearly isn’t due to execution speed of the technology. Is it a leadership problem, a training problem, or something else? What’s missing?
• coldtea 5y ago
  Considering the "downhill quick" progression of Google Maps, that's perfectly possible, especially if we count the PMs along with the developers. It's also not like Trello is some wonder of software engineering either (or that impressive functionality wise).
  • joelbondurant1 5y ago