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My thoughts exactly. For all the hand wringing they did about cutting costs, their focus is on redesigning emojis? It's obvious to me that Elon doesn't actually
by bastawhiz 2y ago
My thoughts exactly. For all the hand wringing they did about cutting costs, their focus is on redesigning emojis? It's obvious to me that Elon doesn't actually care about making the service better and solving real problems (like boosting revenue or fixing problems that impact users).
- yacine_ 2y agolmao you really think this took me more than 15 minutes to do?
- meroes 2y agoBased on the number of bugs and difficulty X had doing anything in the first months after Elon come over, yes.
- bastawhiz 2y agoSounds like you've got so much to do
- not_wyoming 2y agoStill 15 minutes fixing something that wasn't broken instead of generating revenue or cutting costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit - and another 10 defending the decision on HackerNews forums
- KoolKat23 2y agoA strange concern. All those superfluous hours wasted at a private company? Those billionaires will be fine without someone defending their money. Oh and wait until you hear about the Google Doodle...
- not_wyoming 2y agoIt would certainly be strange if I were concerned.
- rd 2y agoat least 25 seems reasonable, no?
- djbusby 2y agoCan you fix the sign-in loop next?
- yacine_ 2y agoyes
- BoredPositron 2y agoCan you do it in 15 minutes please?
- yacine_ 2y agounfortunately that one requires considerably more care
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWhat makes you think their “focus” is on emojis? This is probably just one among many things they’re doing. And it’s the right thing to do, because the political censorship of the pistol emoji is yet another example of how deeply biased tech companies have been in pushing their politics onto customers.
- bastawhiz 2y agoThere's zero cost to leaving the emoji as it is. The designer of the new version claims he's still working on it, so I don't know how you can say it's not a "focus". It's a waste of time and money for purely ideological reasons.
- theultdev 2y agoThe change to the water gun was for ideological reasons. This is returning to the original. Without being the project manager, you're speculating on the amount of focus this had.
- yacine_ 2y ago[flagged]
- bastawhiz 2y agoIt's not a git revert. It is active effort to create a new emoji. There's zero cost to leaving it alone, there's material cost to changing it. Last time I checked, that's a bad way for a company that nearly went out of business to prioritize.
- theultdev 2y agoWell, I guess we'll just see how it pays off for them. It's already making buzz so if it was an hour of work, I'd say the marketing effect alone was worth it.
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