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They seem to have a habit of making things worse every time they make a change, I wish they would just stop trying. I suppose they have the VC curse so a merely

They seem to have a habit of making things worse every time they make a change, I wish they would just stop trying. I suppose they have the VC curse so a merely profitable buisness isnt enough they must constantly be spewing out new ideas in the hopes of prolonging the exponential curve a little bit longer. The one that annoys me the most isn in fact that when I open the app I get some popup in my face about something. I only ever open the app with a mind to already doing something, so I always flick it away, then some time later sometimes regret it because I would actually like to see whats new and can't find a list of them anywhere, like some labyrinthine music menu stack

eddmakesio 3y ago
Spotify is a public company!
- doctaj 3y ago
  Even worse, then?
ryandrake 3y ago
> They seem to have a habit of making things worse every time they make a change, I wish they would just stop trying. It's an industry-wide problem. At some point the software is good enough, and should be considered "done". But there's still a development team sitting around--what should they do?? Developers gotta develop, so they'll just keep changing it forever. I remember hearing the saying "Programmers are like beavers. Leave a beaver alone to decide what to do and they'll just keep building dams, regardless of the fact that their home is done." I don't know if that's really true about beavers, but it's true about software organizations. The whole software development team will just continue working on the software even long past the point where they're done.
- RugnirViking 3y ago
  I don't know if thats the entire thing though. There are thousands of annoyances and bugs a team could be spending their time fixing to really make the product great. It's not like its "done", in fact its going in the wrong direction. It's more of the "feature factory" mentality imo, a culture of throwing stuff out the door as fast as possible without regard for quality. Its reflective of poor internal incentives and culture.

eddmakesio 3y ago

Spotify is a public company!

doctaj 3y ago
Even worse, then?

ryandrake 3y ago

> They seem to have a habit of making things worse every time they make a change, I wish they would just stop trying. It's an industry-wide problem. At some point the software is good enough, and should be considered "done". But there's still a development team sitting around--what should they do?? Developers gotta develop, so they'll just keep changing it forever. I remember hearing the saying "Programmers are like beavers. Leave a beaver alone to decide what to do and they'll just keep building dams, regardless of the fact that their home is done." I don't know if that's really true about beavers, but it's true about software organizations. The whole software development team will just continue working on the software even long past the point where they're done.

RugnirViking 3y ago
I don't know if thats the entire thing though. There are thousands of annoyances and bugs a team could be spending their time fixing to really make the product great. It's not like its "done", in fact its going in the wrong direction. It's more of the "feature factory" mentality imo, a culture of throwing stuff out the door as fast as possible without regard for quality. Its reflective of poor internal incentives and culture.