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I’m against ganging up but I think adding a relevant comment to this thread won’t count as such. Something the Microsoft API team did irked me slightly. One da
by ionwake 4y ago
I’m against ganging up but I think adding a relevant comment to this thread won’t count as such.
Something the Microsoft API team did irked me slightly. One day the Microsoft 360 API (used for email) seemingly stopped working. After a whole week of troubleshooting and discussion with other devs around the planet I fixed the issue. New headers had to be included. It was a one line fix that stole a week of my life. The API had changed. I could have been ok with this but when I made a post on the repo explaining the fix and that I had no idea why it had even changed, instead of a thank you- a Microsoft API dev chimed in to say it was a trivial change and didn’t see what everyone was so upset about. Knowing no documentation had been updated and every system around the planet had been broken for probably a week that depended on it. No apology no gratitude. I can handle that. But an insult to say I was being impertinent and overblowing the importance.
Well I never forgot it, and eventually this stuff comes out. I hazard to say there are toxic dangerous people in every major company I just don’t understand why these people aren’t cautioned as soon as these public incidents happen it’s as if no one is really watching the behaviour in the irc channels or repos but are instead focusing on internal metrics which in my opinion don’t measure the devastation cause by these bad apples - who should atleast be checked up on.