Here’s a hint. If you’re a company and are about to introduce a “feature” that will make people burn you in effigy… don’t.
Don’t. Be. That. Guy.
Don’t tell your customers New Coke tastes better. Don’t advertise the shit out of your exciting launch of the Edsel. If you’re working for Google and feel like being evil… don’t. Just don’t do it.
Don’t inflict your better and superior and wildly unpopular ideas on the people who are your customers. They don’t give a crap about your special new take on what’s basically a way to type strings of text. Get over yourself. If they want what you think is a shit sandwich… then get out the bread and make a fuckin’ shit sandwich.
Capiche? Got it it? Ya’ feel me? Did ya’ grok that? We square? Good!
I’m done ranting. I’ve installed the WordPress “classic editor” and it’s good enough for now. It was easier than dumping WordPress lock, stock, and barrel (which I’m eager to do if they get used to this kind of behavior). I recommend “classic” (a.k.a. “geezer mode”) to anyone who cares about such things. (Ironically, WordPress’ editor was always a bit lame. I was actually looking forward to the upgrade. It’s just that Gutenberg is really pathetic. Flat out craptacular. I didn’t relish my blogging becoming another battle against the post-literate society that lurks in my nightmares. Fuckin’ “blocks”?!? They can bite me!)
Happy typing y’all.
A.C.
This. This is why I open your post as soon as I see one in my inbox, not respecting the order in which it was received.
Don’t judge me.
No judging here. I talk to trees and my tractor never runs. Let it all hang out!
Glad you like it.
Features nobody wants. Oh, we have that everywhere. Where you and I live we can live or die from the weather. The Weather Channel app on my phone used to give me, at a glance, the highs and lows for the next 10 days and the hourly temperature, wind speed, and moisture for the next 24 hours. No longer. The recent update now gives me radar maps, advertisements, pollen count (a valuable addition to my January clothing decisions), pollution index, why just about everything a person could want in a weather app other than, you know, what the weather will be.
A pox on their house. Hopefully they feel this in the loss of downloads and advertising revenue.
I have a theory on this. You’re in charge of making an app or programming something. You do it. All is well. You get a few bug fixes out of the way, maybe add a few features. Now what? Somewhere in time the answer went from “don’t fix what works” to “change it, significantly and often, for confused people may think it’s better.” This will not end in our lifetime.
– Max
Ha ha ha… “It’s-20 and the sun just went down, I think I’ll check out the pollen count.” Awesome!
There should be a market for people who don’t like gimmicks: “I liked object X when I bought it Y years ago. I wore it out. Here’s the model number. I want the exact same thing again.”