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It’s just absolutely dreadful. Using it on desktop is a laggy mess. I mean this quite literally what do the 10,000 people do?
by Mistletoe 2y ago
It’s just absolutely dreadful. Using it on desktop is a laggy mess. I mean this quite literally what do the 10,000 people do?
- iamacyborg 2y agoCome up with features no one asked for to justify their salaries. Seems to be rather common in product-driven tech businesses.
- Mistletoe 2y agoI can only imagine how many soul-searching meetings it took to decide to change the heart to the plus sign for liking songs.
- fredrikholm 2y agoJazz, apparently.
- spuz 2y agoIt wasn't always like this. When Spotify was launched the desktop app was one of the best pieces of software I'd ever used. It launched quickly and songs played without buffering which was unheard of at the time. It was the work of largely one developer, Ludvig Strigeus who was also the author of the original uTorrent client (which was also used to be fantastic). As a software developer I'm biased but I think this ultra smooth experience was a large contributor to Spotify's initial growth.
- lycopodiopsida 2y agoIt was also a native application on macOS (OS X at that time). But then it was replaced with this Electron abomination which would have a runaway process any other day and consume all battery and would require 2 years to implement sorting in playlists. I truly ask myself what their development team is doing.
- doublerabbit 2y agoSpam me with pop ups tell me what I should be listening too.