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My employer is considering using backstage for our data infrastructure tooling. This makes me nervous because Spotify seems unable to program a reliable shuffle
by gibbitz 2y ago
My employer is considering using backstage for our data infrastructure tooling. This makes me nervous because Spotify seems unable to program a reliable shuffle feature on their player. Maybe it's because they put all the good devs on backstage?
- btown 2y agoSpotify's shuffle algorithm can't be changed easily because too many people rely on its existing quirks. Which means that Spotify's ability to keep it at a reliably stable level of unreliability for so long, through so many other platform changes, makes it a prime example of why Spotify is a perfect choice for enterprise! ;)
- saghm 2y agoIt's true; they make UI changes that no one wants (like pushing the queue off to a sidebar that can't be expanded to the way it used to be), constantly try to push features I don't want (some weird "DJ" feature that has an actual programmed voice between songs, "collaborative" playlists when I pretty much exclusively listen alone with headphones), and refuse to implement extraordinarily simple features that would be universally popular (like being able to mark certain songs/artists as "don't ever play this for me please"), and yet the few other players in the space all have similarly mediocre products that give me no real choice. This is peak enterprise UX.
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