Pulse SMS App for Android recently updated to include:
New “Discover” Section: Find new offers, inspiring content, articles & more
On a messaging app, really??? Who wants any of those features when trying to message someone?
The great thing is that you can simply uninstall it and leave an inspiring review.
wow pulse used to be great. did luke sell? i remember he open sourced it in 2020 but the repo seems to be gone: https://github.com/klinker-apps/pulse-sms-android
edit: huh looks like they got bought in oct. 2020. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/29/it-looks-like-pulse-sms-has-been-bought-by-maple-media-get-ready-for-intrusive-ads/
(there is another repo here https://github.com/jarvanh/pulse-sms-android but i’m not sure how official it is)
If you ever feel useless just remember somebody designed and implemented the share-to-facebook feature on porn sites.
That isn’t there so people use it. That is there so that Facebook can track where you go
Course they only need a 1px by 1px image for that right?
Shoutout Facebook Container for Firefox, or Firefox if you’re still using a browser that’s killing the open web 😉
At this point both of these guys are saying “I have seen horrible things”
They’re both the same guy, just one’s wearing a hat
No man. That is a brilliant feature that has caught out many “anti-gay” politician’s.
Wanted to prove people used those buttons, but maybe not (need to use better/unblocked terms I suppose):
Low Stakes Conspiracies: that share button is there to get users banned. Activist admins or funded by Musk himself?
(Yeah, they pulled a permanent Twitter Taylor Swift on Pornhub.)
Proof 404 (2003)
You don’t understand! If you don’t keep adding new features, people will stop using your app!
Who wants simple apps that just work as intended, am I right?
The UNIX Tools Philosophy is that tools should do one thing, and they should do it well.
I wish more things followed this philosophy.The actual problem is if you don’t add new features, there’s nothing for people to do beyond maintenance and you aren’t going to keep good developers to only stick around for that.
So your option is new features or a new app entirely, but coming up with other good apps isn’t easy and is a huge risk.
So if you actually did good market research and spoke to users, you could find new features to add.
Beyond a tiny company or sole developer, it doesn’t really work.
Get out of here with these facts and work on that UI redesign we’re due to ship next year.
You mean the one that no one asked for, makes it harder to do the primary thing the app is designed to do, and all the involved developers have told management it’s a bad idea with a detailed list of why?
As a former product manager where the CEO led the sales team, I feel seen.
My favorite is menstruation calendars with friend lists. My least favorite is when my gynecologist wants to hang out only a week out of the month.
More than likely, if it’s a publicly traded company, it’s the shareholders and the board of directors.
The board’s job is to hire the CEO and demand good value for shareholders. The CEO’s job is to make the big decisions to achieve that goal quickly and then usually leave before their short term thinking falls apart. The manager’s job is to enforce whatever decisions the CEO makes, even if it is stupid or cruel. And the employee’s job is to suffer so that each layer above can look good to the layer above them.
Not to say there’s no good people in the system. My manager for most of my time there was actually a good manager who felt that his primary job was to deflect away the shit that rolled down from above so we could focus on our work, but then he got laid off along with half my coworkers.
I do miss writing software, but I really don’t miss working in the corporate world.
This is how smart shuffle was born on spotify. No one wants that useless shit.
vim stories when
We already have tinder like for vscode: https://github.com/benawad/vsinder
Now we need github for lesbians.
the cursed postimage
Com’on guys lets all give out our Calculator handlers
CEOs changed the game completely after one of them played spiderman 2.
warning: the story might change the way you think how some developers are treated across the world.
for a full documentary, see this YouTube video(in German, but you can turn on the subtitles)I don’t know if the game is the best example of busineses making top-down design decisions, since that game was an obvious scam from the start.
you’re right. perhaps a better example would be YouTube suggesting videos by colour?
I never saw that, that’s legitimately funny. I’d love to be in the room when that feature was designed, and the reaction of the developer it was handed too.
