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it all mirrors the Twitter takeover (fetishizing "hardcore coders", micromanagement, randomly breaking or cancelling things), so this might just be how Elon Mus

by jhp123 2y ago

it all mirrors the Twitter takeover (fetishizing "hardcore coders", micromanagement, randomly breaking or cancelling things), so this might just be how Elon Musk approaches things.

treis 2y ago
He did cut Twitter's workforce by 80% and things seem fine absent his deranged heel turn.
- KingMob 2y ago
  I have no idea what proportion of Twitter's jobs were necessary or not, but it is DEFINITELY not fine. From images routinely failing to load, to the current mess of logins that is the dualistic nature of x.com vs twitter.com (where which accts appear logged in fluctuates constantly), to my favorite bug, where it's always stuck in dark mode in mobile browsers... And that's just technologically. Firing moderators, letting neonazis run rampant, and driving away advertisers and non-nazis... Honestly, they might as well have brought back the Fail Whale.
  - mrmlz 2y ago
    My X-feed is better now than before . I don't use the website but the app so i haven't encountered the bugs you mention. But as always you need to curate the ones you follow to get a "for you" that's interesting.
    - KingMob 2y ago
      > But as always you need to curate the ones you follow to get a "for you" that's interesting. Sure, but letting neo-nazis run rampant is not just a problem of my personal curation, but a society-wide issue.
  - spacebanana7 2y ago
    I’ve not really noticed any significant increase in problems with the mobile app, and there are some new features like the view counter. Overall though I’d expect much worse problems to occur from firing the majority of a workforce. If that had happened at my workplace there’d be lots of data loss, downtime and show stopping bugs. Because the work people do is essential to the product and although we have some level of redundancy to reduce key man risk, that wouldn’t work if 80% of people left.
  - jpadkins 2y ago
    x.com and app haven't been buggy for me. I also haven't seen an increase in neo-nazi content. Maybe this is true for the people you follow?
- buddavis_ 2y ago
  twitter doesn't have near the income it used to have. or audience. it does have the same profit. 0%

by jhp123 2y ago

it all mirrors the Twitter takeover (fetishizing "hardcore coders", micromanagement, randomly breaking or cancelling things), so this might just be how Elon Musk approaches things.

treis 2y ago

He did cut Twitter's workforce by 80% and things seem fine absent his deranged heel turn.

KingMob 2y ago
I have no idea what proportion of Twitter's jobs were necessary or not, but it is DEFINITELY not fine. From images routinely failing to load, to the current mess of logins that is the dualistic nature of x.com vs twitter.com (where which accts appear logged in fluctuates constantly), to my favorite bug, where it's always stuck in dark mode in mobile browsers... And that's just technologically. Firing moderators, letting neonazis run rampant, and driving away advertisers and non-nazis... Honestly, they might as well have brought back the Fail Whale.
- mrmlz 2y ago
  My X-feed is better now than before . I don't use the website but the app so i haven't encountered the bugs you mention. But as always you need to curate the ones you follow to get a "for you" that's interesting.
  - KingMob 2y ago
    > But as always you need to curate the ones you follow to get a "for you" that's interesting. Sure, but letting neo-nazis run rampant is not just a problem of my personal curation, but a society-wide issue.
- spacebanana7 2y ago
  I’ve not really noticed any significant increase in problems with the mobile app, and there are some new features like the view counter. Overall though I’d expect much worse problems to occur from firing the majority of a workforce. If that had happened at my workplace there’d be lots of data loss, downtime and show stopping bugs. Because the work people do is essential to the product and although we have some level of redundancy to reduce key man risk, that wouldn’t work if 80% of people left.
- jpadkins 2y ago
  x.com and app haven't been buggy for me. I also haven't seen an increase in neo-nazi content. Maybe this is true for the people you follow?
buddavis_ 2y ago
twitter doesn't have near the income it used to have. or audience. it does have the same profit. 0%