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They don't need to do anything, but using depression as a marketing gimmick is bad taste and will be judged poorly. If that is gatekeeping, well ok.
by Majestic121 4y ago
They don't need to do anything, but using depression as a marketing gimmick is bad taste and will be judged poorly.
If that is gatekeeping, well ok.
- Entinel 4y agoI don't see it as a marketing gimmick. I see it as "I'm depressed and this helped me so this might help other people who are depressed.
- not_kurt_godel 4y agoBy this metric, any good software or development practice is an antidepressant. And...they aren't not in a sense, but it's just such a strange and, I guess, selfish? self-centered? solipsistic? way to frame and label the idea of doing things correctly and comfortably in a professional setting. Like, the common factor of good or bad software characteristics isn't that they're going to send every user into a depression or bring them out of one. A bad feature might annoy users, and if it annoys them enough it might contribute to depression, but putting the entire burden of depression on a single software tool is like a carpenter claiming that a single bad hammer gave them depression.
- feet 4y agoWhat, exactly, are they bringing to market?