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If a site or app has a dated design, I usually discount it. I assume that it is going to be outdated in functionality as well. And that it will have a myriad of
by lucumo 5y ago
If a site or app has a dated design, I usually discount it. I assume that it is going to be outdated in functionality as well. And that it will have a myriad of unsolved bugs, none of which is ever going to be fixed. New bugs have one advantage over old bugs: they have a better chance of somebody caring enough to fix it.
- mark_and_sweep 5y agoIgnoring the fallacy that dated design equals outdated functionality... I'd assume the opposite in regards to bugs: My assumption would be that older software has fewer bugs since, the longer the software is used, the more likely it is for bugs to be discovered.
- lucumo 5y agoFor bugs to be fixed, changes have to be made. If software is unchanged, by definition it will have the original bugs. It's not always clear if software is actually changed. A changelog is useful in that regard, but you won't get that everywhere. Dated looks is a heuristic for: was build long ago, has had no changes since. Heuristics aren't proofs of course, but you so rarely get proofs in real life anyway.