Good opportunity to say how annoying are update notes like “We are continuing to improve our application. We fixed a couple more issues to make it more stable”. Corporate style, uselessness and the fact that this update can contain some stupid redesign is disgusting.

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago

"We are constantly improving our application. Please keep updates turned on."

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've reached a point where I avoid these types of updates. An update post like that either means nothing important changed or they're up to something.

A while ago I saw that style of patch notes, updated an app, and suddenly I can't use it anymore because it got limited to a maximum of 2 devices. Another time I updated an app putting a harmless "we improved the user experience" message, they put dark mode behind a paywall. This isn't counting the number of times an app got redesigned to make the user experience worse for no reason. Maybe they wanted to justify hiring 5 UI/UX interns in that quarter or something.

The patch notes look harmless, but my god, they are usually up to something.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah. I do the same. That "we are making improvements" text is corporate for "we don't have anything remotely close to change management or quality assurance".

[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm done with programs that need meaningless updates like this every day. All my patience for that was used up with flash and java.