That’s why we revamped the Firefox for Android to be the most private mobile Firefox so far.
It's so private that it won't even let you browse the internet. Talk about innovation!
Why does every single company that once used to be decent eventually fall into hot garbage?
These companies are always tinkering with something in the name of "advancing technology", or "providing a better experience," when it seems more like it's just some assholes trying to justify their employment. It inevitably turns things that were once amazing and simple into convoluted messes that utterly destroy what brought people to it in the first place. It drives me nuts.
Seen this happen so many times to simple programs I really like.
Plex is pretty much the centerpiece of my entertainment system, and I'm starting to get really worried because I'm seeing them start adding a bunch of crap features that I can't believe any significant number of people use. I really want to grab them and scream in their faces "STOP ADDING STUPID SHIT NO ONE WANTS (like building in all this stupid no-name internet streaming crap no one wants), AND JUST IMPROVE AND STREAMLINE MY MEDIA MANAGEMENT!!!!!1111"
The idea of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is completely lost on a lot of businesses these days. Like I said, the only thing I can think of is that it's some desperate people trying to justify their job. More does not always mean something is better. Simplicity is a wonderful thing.
If we don't randomly remove and add features then the customer might try a new product out of curiosity, so we'll make the interface slightly harder to use every three months so they have to spend hours finding the stuff they want.
I hate that phrase when it comes to code, because when people say it they're usually talking about code that only 1 guy in the company even remembers exists, is completely unmaintainable and a security hole just waiting to happen (if it doesn't already contain some). Real programmers rarely have a low workload and there's usually a growing mountain of technical debt that no one has the time to get to.
But when it comes to UI/UX design people, I think you just shouldn't employ those fulltime, because they'll spend 80% of their time coming up with bullshit that most actual users will hate just to justify their paycheck.
Why does every single company that once used to be decent eventually fall into hot garbage?
Small group (1-5 people) gets idea for (thing). If they don't have the smarts to develop it to usability, stop here.
Small group releases (thing). If (thing) is unpopular, stop here.
(Thing) gets popular. If small group refuses to grow to maintain the exponential increase in communications/downloads/support/whatever, it collapses. Stop here.
Group is now a medium-sized group. The original idea people are now overseeing groups of hand-selected new hires in the further work on (thing). If (thing) caps at modest popularity, stop here.
Popularity increases further. More people are hired. Group is now a big group. Original idea people are now in upper management positions, with their original hires being in the oversight positions that used to be the top positions back when the organization was smaller. The biggest nerd among the originals might be head of development, but that's still management. By now he can't understand (thing)'s recent changes. People he's never even met are working on (thing) and only following his instructions as filtered through his subordinates and their competing requirements (budget, deadline, etc.). No one working directly on (thing) can say "Stop, we can't release this today, it's not ready. We need another week."
An HR department now exists to handle the volume of staff, staffed by liberal arts types who understand liberal arts but don't understand (thing) any better than a layman. These people are now in charge of finding new people to work on (thing), with direction from people who were maybe hired by people hired by the originals.
Before long, the organization has started to become top heavy. HR has more interest in HR than (thing) and it starts to show. Meetings are more often about policy than development. Upper management loses direct contact with both the market and the actual engineering of (thing), their decisions now being filtered through multiple 3rd parties. New visionaries are never hired - the organization has too much momentum to pivot to their ideas, which fail 9 times out of 10 anyway. Eccentrics are fired or kicked sideways or otherwise forced out because even if they were instrumental to the development of (thing) they don't work well now in an organization where "Shut the fuck up." is no longer acceptable in a meeting, no matter how much the person speaking needs to be told to shut the fuck up.
(Thing) keeps going because of momentum. As the square root of the number of people in a group do half the work, those people start leaving for greener pastures, since the hardest workers are often the most stifled by org chart bloat or the ones most able to see the writing on the wall. Organization is now almost as big but only half as skilled.
Repeat the last step a few more times, with each new layer of more mediocre half-of-the-work-workers leaving as they realize it ain't what it used to be.
I think the big problem is people don't understand mid-level jobs so you see a lot of people in IT, programming, and technology who only understand it slightly better than the HR recruiter. Same deal with accounting, people make a simple task overly complicated to keep their cushy job.
It starts with a push for a "progressive mindset," "diversity and inclusion," and "doing better."
Then they hire a bunch of women and niggers based entirely on them being loud, angry women and niggers. Of course it's racist/patriarchal/bananas to not give the women and niggers good coding jobs.
So they start with random bullshit no one cares about and make some stupid font and accessibility changes, which often are worse and nobody wanted.
Then they move to random UI redesigns, which again are worse and nobody wanted.
Finally they did such a great job on the changes that were universally despised by the userbase that the women and niggers are brought into the central meetings and given control over the direction of the product.
This is why, for example, you see sites like YouTube changing their UI every few months.
I remember when some years ago Mozilla fired its competent (white male) CEO because he supported the ban of gay marriage in California... Great results.
It's so private that it won't even let you browse the internet. Talk about innovation!
Why does every single company that once used to be decent eventually fall into hot garbage?
These companies are always tinkering with something in the name of "advancing technology", or "providing a better experience," when it seems more like it's just some assholes trying to justify their employment. It inevitably turns things that were once amazing and simple into convoluted messes that utterly destroy what brought people to it in the first place. It drives me nuts.
Seen this happen so many times to simple programs I really like.
Plex is pretty much the centerpiece of my entertainment system, and I'm starting to get really worried because I'm seeing them start adding a bunch of crap features that I can't believe any significant number of people use. I really want to grab them and scream in their faces "STOP ADDING STUPID SHIT NO ONE WANTS (like building in all this stupid no-name internet streaming crap no one wants), AND JUST IMPROVE AND STREAMLINE MY MEDIA MANAGEMENT!!!!!1111"
The idea of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is completely lost on a lot of businesses these days. Like I said, the only thing I can think of is that it's some desperate people trying to justify their job.
More does not always mean something is better. Simplicity is a wonderful thing.
If we don't randomly remove and add features then the customer might try a new product out of curiosity, so we'll make the interface slightly harder to use every three months so they have to spend hours finding the stuff they want.
I hate that phrase when it comes to code, because when people say it they're usually talking about code that only 1 guy in the company even remembers exists, is completely unmaintainable and a security hole just waiting to happen (if it doesn't already contain some). Real programmers rarely have a low workload and there's usually a growing mountain of technical debt that no one has the time to get to.
But when it comes to UI/UX design people, I think you just shouldn't employ those fulltime, because they'll spend 80% of their time coming up with bullshit that most actual users will hate just to justify their paycheck.
Small group (1-5 people) gets idea for (thing). If they don't have the smarts to develop it to usability, stop here.
Small group releases (thing). If (thing) is unpopular, stop here.
(Thing) gets popular. If small group refuses to grow to maintain the exponential increase in communications/downloads/support/whatever, it collapses. Stop here.
Group is now a medium-sized group. The original idea people are now overseeing groups of hand-selected new hires in the further work on (thing). If (thing) caps at modest popularity, stop here.
Popularity increases further. More people are hired. Group is now a big group. Original idea people are now in upper management positions, with their original hires being in the oversight positions that used to be the top positions back when the organization was smaller. The biggest nerd among the originals might be head of development, but that's still management. By now he can't understand (thing)'s recent changes. People he's never even met are working on (thing) and only following his instructions as filtered through his subordinates and their competing requirements (budget, deadline, etc.). No one working directly on (thing) can say "Stop, we can't release this today, it's not ready. We need another week."
An HR department now exists to handle the volume of staff, staffed by liberal arts types who understand liberal arts but don't understand (thing) any better than a layman. These people are now in charge of finding new people to work on (thing), with direction from people who were maybe hired by people hired by the originals.
Before long, the organization has started to become top heavy. HR has more interest in HR than (thing) and it starts to show. Meetings are more often about policy than development. Upper management loses direct contact with both the market and the actual engineering of (thing), their decisions now being filtered through multiple 3rd parties. New visionaries are never hired - the organization has too much momentum to pivot to their ideas, which fail 9 times out of 10 anyway. Eccentrics are fired or kicked sideways or otherwise forced out because even if they were instrumental to the development of (thing) they don't work well now in an organization where "Shut the fuck up." is no longer acceptable in a meeting, no matter how much the person speaking needs to be told to shut the fuck up.
(Thing) keeps going because of momentum. As the square root of the number of people in a group do half the work, those people start leaving for greener pastures, since the hardest workers are often the most stifled by org chart bloat or the ones most able to see the writing on the wall. Organization is now almost as big but only half as skilled.
Repeat the last step a few more times, with each new layer of more mediocre half-of-the-work-workers leaving as they realize it ain't what it used to be.
And here we are.
I think the big problem is people don't understand mid-level jobs so you see a lot of people in IT, programming, and technology who only understand it slightly better than the HR recruiter. Same deal with accounting, people make a simple task overly complicated to keep their cushy job.
The progressive(the political philosophy) mindset encourages constant change. Those people are the ones who dominate silicon valley tech.
It starts with a push for a "progressive mindset," "diversity and inclusion," and "doing better."
Then they hire a bunch of women and niggers based entirely on them being loud, angry women and niggers. Of course it's racist/patriarchal/bananas to not give the women and niggers good coding jobs.
So they start with random bullshit no one cares about and make some stupid font and accessibility changes, which often are worse and nobody wanted.
Then they move to random UI redesigns, which again are worse and nobody wanted.
Finally they did such a great job on the changes that were universally despised by the userbase that the women and niggers are brought into the central meetings and given control over the direction of the product.
This is why, for example, you see sites like YouTube changing their UI every few months.
I remember when some years ago Mozilla fired its competent (white male) CEO because he supported the ban of gay marriage in California... Great results.
It sounds like the "Diversity Bridge", but not really as dangerous.
Get woke, go off this bridge right now! It's about to collapse.
Thankfully, it was a small bridge. It broke off into some chunks that crushed some cars. I think someone was in one of them, but was okay.
Reads like a fucking onion article.
I didn't upgrade shit, I just woke up one day and the browser was acting retarded and looked different, you queers. Fuck you.
I was always afraid some update would eliminate the uBlock Origin extension. Well, looks like I won't update it.