Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it • Hacker News Board

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by encoderer » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 4:03 AM UTC

flxy wrote: post #86

nerdponx wrote: post #61

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Yet now they've removed playlist radios in favor of the "enhance" feature. Someone is asleep at the wheel.

"Radios" in Spotify are a shadow of their former self anyway. They used to be a theoretically infinite list of songs that you could up and down vote, which would then influence the next songs to be added. Now it's just a playlist of stuff Spotify deems similar and you essentially just have to deal with it. Discovery via their radio used to be great. Whenever I tried it more recently it was kind of awful. I've switche…

Yes! Radios have been totally gutted. It was my primary way of discovering new music. Now it’s biased towards music I already have liked.

Jesus Christ Spotify. Is there anybody working there who actually likes music anymore? No I don’t want to listen to the fucking Gillian Flynn novel.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by procinct » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 9:43 AM UTC

encoderer wrote: post #23

Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.

I agree that the UX has become cluttered but Heardle was never integrated into the apps UX, it was a totally standalone website.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by wincy » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 10:07 PM UTC

pie420 wrote: post #34

wincy wrote: post #6

Thank goodness. One of my Facebook friends spams my feed with his Heardle score every day and it drives me crazy.

You deserve that and much worse for still using Facebook in 2023.

I’m such a rebel, I even press “allow” when Facebook asks nicely if it can track me on my iPhone.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by scrollaway » Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 8:58 AM UTC

kotaKat wrote: post #90

Does this mean the Heardle developers will be tasked elsewhere, like writing that AirPlay 2 integration they've had the ability to do for well over a year now, instead of a stupid widget for our iPhone lockscreens that doesn't even do what people want it to?

What makes you think the Heardle developers know anything about AirPlay?

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by 90-00-09 » Mon, Apr 17, 2023, 11:14 PM UTC

h4ch1 wrote: post #120

90-00-09 wrote: post #103

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I heard about this change from so many sources. Where can I see it (which section)? I quit Spotify months ago but curious to see this pattern.

There you go: https://streamable.com/7e1hka (pls ignore the content)

Thanks for the link! Unfortunately, the video has been archived already. But that helped me to just look up a UI review video on YouTube. Now I get what the fuss is about! It turns out that I am in some holdout or control group for this UI experiment as my home screen did not change on iOS. I can access the new feed if I tap Music on Home feed though. The new experience is completely unusable, not sure who this is for..