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Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by embedding-shape »

latexr wrote: post #10
embedding-shape wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> testing these giant companies do for features I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing. GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, on…

Something I’ve also noticed is the number badge for open issues and pull requests not disappearing for a long while. This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I keep clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.

Yeah, large companies like to really excel at specifically the eventual part of "eventual consistency", and without proper testing of production latencies, lots of UIs just end up broken, buggy and janky.

I don't know if I just got seriously grumpy over time/with experience, but everything user-facing just seems so crap nowadays, unless it's made by a smaller company who actually seem to care even a tiny bit.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

#13

Post by jasoncartwright »

latexr wrote: post #10
embedding-shape wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> testing these giant companies do for features I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing. GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, on…

Something I’ve also noticed is the number badge for open issues and pull requests not disappearing for a long while. This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I keep clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.

It's annoyingly disconcerting. A simple database row count apparently now difficult in 2026.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by malfist »

jasoncartwright wrote: post #13
latexr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something I’ve also noticed is the number badge for open issues and pull requests not disappearing for a long while. This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I keep clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.

It's annoyingly disconcerting. A simple database row count apparently now difficult in 2026.

Don't worry, I've vibe coded a new database system and it'll save us (and net me a nice promo)

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by ttctciyf »

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

Yes! As a frequent user of youtube queues, it feels like they have a dedicated team of one or two junior devs to futz around with it on a weekly basis and zero QA, because it is always breaking in new, unexpected ways.

"Everything is broken" used to mean "all software is insecure because the inherent complexity of a modern software stack ensures it's beyond the abilities of the average developer to eliminate all attack vectors" [1].

Now it just means [2].

1: https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pndhO5DcSI0

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by kristopolous »

I really don't understand this stuff. I've run multiple companies, this stuff would be fixed in minutes if it happened and very likely never get released.

Aren't they hiring supposedly top-tier talent and paying them top-dollar?

Surely they have a test suite and surely this would fail in that test suite.

I really don't understand how they end up doing such things.

I can only imagine that they hire a bunch of 22 year olds from prestigious schools who have never had a job pushing production code and convince themselves everything will be ok.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

#18

Post by masfuerte »

latexr wrote: post #10
embedding-shape wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> testing these giant companies do for features I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing. GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, on…

Something I’ve also noticed is the number badge for open issues and pull requests not disappearing for a long while. This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I keep clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.

I've been forced to use github projects recently. If I change the label or status, say, of a task, the change takes its sweet time to propagate through the UI. Creating multiple new tasks is a huge chore because every action is really laggy. It's hard to believe that anyone at github uses any of this junk.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by functionmouse »

kotaKat wrote: post #12
PunchyHamster wrote: post #5

They probably also sent AI on bug hunting quest there too like they were bragging for Chrome...

They were looking for another place they could cram Nano's Banana down people's throats.

What a powerful statement
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