Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify

KomoD wrote: post #2

> internal data-access required for ongoing updates to many parts of this site Was he allowed to use that? I mean for this use case and publishing

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Re: Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify

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Post by not2b » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 1:09 AM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #2

> internal data-access required for ongoing updates to many parts of this site Was he allowed to use that? I mean for this use case and publishing

Evidently he was allowed until he was no longer allowed.

Re: Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify

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Post by fatherzine » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 1:09 AM UTC

blakesterz wrote: post #3

They also wrote a blog post on being laid off here: https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473

"as long as people are just units inserted into well-defined slots, the machinery doesn't need to care who they are." -- nailed it

Re: Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify

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Post by goatbrain » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 1:15 AM UTC

As an aside - but not completely, because it speaks to incidents such as this re Spotify... but have people been noticing a deterioration in the Spotify experience recently? For example, the UX of the app getting too complicated; the algorithms no longer have the "delightful serendipity" they used to, etc and so on. I suppose that is to be expected from any behemoth (especially one that is not particularly profitable and subject to the squeeze from other parts of the industry)... but the loss of the ecosphere that built around it seems to only hasten the problem.

Re: Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify

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Post by notyourwork » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 1:16 AM UTC

goatbrain wrote: post #7

As an aside - but not completely, because it speaks to incidents such as this re Spotify... but have people been noticing a deterioration in the Spotify experience recently? For example, the UX of the app getting too complicated; the algorithms no longer have the "delightful serendipity" they used to, etc and so on. I suppose that is to be expected from any behemoth (especially one that is not particularly profitable…

I’ve noticed a small and hard to quantify degradation in recommender relevance over the last 12 months.

To add, I think I’m seeing less discovery and more popularity bias. I used to discover a lot more.

Re: Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify

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Post by xyzelement » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 1:19 AM UTC

fatherzine wrote: post #6

blakesterz wrote: post #3

They also wrote a blog post on being laid off here: https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473

"as long as people are just units inserted into well-defined slots, the machinery doesn't need to care who they are." -- nailed it

I mean, I think this is by and large just true.

If I am looking for a co-founder, who that person and their very unique combination of skills, perspectives, etc, matters a ton. If I am looking for SRE #20,000 for a FAANG, I need them to do the basic SRE role in a way that aligns with how we think about our caliber and culture. Obviously the person can do that in their own way to an extent, but we're not really looking for them to have insights like "actually, I don't think reliability matter - I am gonna stop doing it"

Re: Creator of everynoise.com laid off from Spotify

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Post by beanjuiceII » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 1:20 AM UTC

goatbrain wrote: post #7

As an aside - but not completely, because it speaks to incidents such as this re Spotify... but have people been noticing a deterioration in the Spotify experience recently? For example, the UX of the app getting too complicated; the algorithms no longer have the "delightful serendipity" they used to, etc and so on. I suppose that is to be expected from any behemoth (especially one that is not particularly profitable…

I have not noticed any difference