I love how, given the icon, I read that post in a daffy duck accent.
Yeah, I've been having spotty issues with photos as well... and other stuff. I guess I can't complain as they've kept the site largely running for 25 years, but I do feel like there's this ongoing pressure in the computer industry to keep adding features nobody asked for or even necessary wants/likes. There's no reason this site shouldn't run just as well (or better really) on a 2001-era browser today vs. how it ran on a 2001-era browser in 2001.
I guess I'll never understand the repeating issues in technology of 1) fixing things that ain't broke 2) designing apps for only the latest-greatest hardware or system OS 3) changing sites or things once they become popular.
re: #3 ... people flock to sites because they Like What It Offers... not what it doesn't! Don't change it!
re: #2 ... going through another one of those problems at work right now... a perfectly good app has been in use for over 4 years for submitting work and clocking in and out to Get Paid. Now they've got a whole new app that breaks daily. DAILY. Except on the very latest most recent most expensive phones.
re: #1 ... LJ. MySpace. Yelp. AIM. and dozens and dozens of other things. mind-boggling. ;P
Yeah. I can understand that there's times when new features might come along, and sometimes those new features may break — and, especially in the case of hardware, be much more useful than — old features, such that updates are necessary. Or when twitter added the (now defunct) "friends circle" thing, which didn't interfere with existing features and was genuinely useful. But things like "let's re-tool how the start menu works" just doesn't make sense to me.
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Date: 2024-04-11 02:53 pm (UTC)I love how, given the icon, I read that post in a daffy duck accent.
Yeah, I've been having spotty issues with photos as well... and other stuff. I guess I can't complain as they've kept the site largely running for 25 years, but I do feel like there's this ongoing pressure in the computer industry to keep adding features nobody asked for or even necessary wants/likes. There's no reason this site shouldn't run just as well (or better really) on a 2001-era browser today vs. how it ran on a 2001-era browser in 2001.
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Date: 2024-04-28 07:12 am (UTC)re: #3 ... people flock to sites because they Like What It Offers... not what it doesn't! Don't change it!
re: #2 ... going through another one of those problems at work right now... a perfectly good app has been in use for over 4 years for submitting work and clocking in and out to Get Paid. Now they've got a whole new app that breaks daily. DAILY. Except on the very latest most recent most expensive phones.
re: #1 ... LJ. MySpace. Yelp. AIM. and dozens and dozens of other things. mind-boggling. ;P
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Date: 2024-04-28 03:14 pm (UTC)Yeah. I can understand that there's times when new features might come along, and sometimes those new features may break — and, especially in the case of hardware, be much more useful than — old features, such that updates are necessary. Or when twitter added the (now defunct) "friends circle" thing, which didn't interfere with existing features and was genuinely useful. But things like "let's re-tool how the start menu works" just doesn't make sense to me.