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One technique i use is to accidentally break features i want to get rid of. Then when nobody complains, i can just delete the old broken feature that nobody use

• MereInterest 5y ago
  That's an interesting idea, and is effectively a trial run of fully removing a feature. Though, does that imply that you're working in a codebase without automated testing? With automated testing, the "accidental" breakage would be more likely to be caught.
  • 8note 5y ago
    It tends to be that for features people mostly don't care about, the automated tests started failing years ago, and nobody will prioritize fixing them. At some point there was automated tests, but their failures are now ignored or have been turned off.
• Jasper_ 5y ago
  Ah, yes, the Google strategy. Accidentally break the feature, then look at the analytics six months later when nobody uses it because it doesn't work, decide that it was a useless feature, just remove it instead of fixing it. And I mean, I'd lodge a formal complaint about the broken feature but I'm not even sure I can file a bug report with the specific Google service, and the last 10 complaints I managed to file all got bitbucketed anyway so why even bother. So I'll just grumble and stop using your product, because you can't seem to write features that work.