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Sometimes you wonder whether there is more than one full time paid dev working on those apps..

• masklinn 4y ago
  Usually there’s loads. However, there are lots factors which cause this issue, partially repeating the previous things: - devs want to work on fun / sexy stuff - or they want backend work and there’s a lack of staff on the client side (because the hardcoded shortcuts or the random beeping are entirely client-side issues) - PMs want to design new whizbang stuff they can wank themselves over or add to their portfolio or whatever, triaging and fixing papercuts and usability bugs is not sexy unless an n+x hit them and tells you to get them fixed, this is even more of an issue if development is PM/manager-driven and deviating is risky - you may not want to put your finger in that trap if that tags you as the person who fixes the shit bug, doing it once in a while can be nice / interesting / rewarding, doing it all the time less so - discord is a social network (or at least social-network-adjacent), meaning they probably have a lot of staff involved in mitigating abuse (spam, scams, fraud, …) - discord has received a lot of investment (500m last year), I don’t know how their cashflow is but the issue of investment is growth chasing, chasing network effects is more useful than fixing minor usability bugs here and I doubt anyone’ll leave discord over random beeps
  • Avamander 4y ago
    > devs want to work on fun / sexy stuff I've heard numerous times developers saying that they'd gladly fix some annoyances in {{megacorp product}} but product managers couldn't care less to allow spending time on those.